Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pant-y-Ffa Round Cairn
Mawr, Swansea, Wales
A scheduled monument in Mawr, Swansea, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 23 March 1950
- Community
- Mawr
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.70603, -4.00089
- SAM number
- GM201
- Cadw record number
- 3574
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 230 Ammanford (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1920 · Sheet 100. Llanelly. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the remains a burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). It is situated on enclosed land at just under 120m above OD. The cairn is large and stands upon a platform made up of stones. The platform, now covered in grass, is oval and measures about 30.5m long from north to south by 27.4m wide and 0.3 to 0.6m high. It has been robbed, especially on the eastern side where the removal of stone has revealed that the cairn has an outer envelope of large rounded boulders and an inner core of generally smaller stones including many fragments of pink sandstone.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The monument is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Cairns may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
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- Gwenlais-uchafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Circular Pigsty at Beili GrasAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
- The Water Mill / Melin FelindreIndustrial1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.