Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Foel Chwern Round Cairn
Blaengwrach, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Blaengwrach
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.72273, -3.59617
- SAM number
- GM235
- Cadw record number
- 2883
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (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 a slight summit at about 550m above OD. The cairn is flat-topped cairn and measures approximately 7.1m in diameter by 0.6m high. The cairn was partially excavated in the 1960s and found to be oval in plan. There was no trace of a burial or any finds.
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
- Blaengwrach FarmhouseDomestic2 mi
- Agricultural range at Blaengwrach FarmAgriculture and Subsistence2 mi
- Ffos Toncenglau cross ridge dykeCross Ridge Dyke2 mi
- Pontwalby Railway Viaduct (partly in Glynneath community)Transport2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.