Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Carn y Hyrddod & Neighbouring Cairn
Ogmore Valley, Bridgend, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Ogmore Valley
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.63229, -3.56338
- SAM number
- GM243
- Cadw record number
- 398
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 in a commanding position on top of the ridge. The cairn is turf covered and measures 14m in diameter and 1.7m high. A small cairn has been built on the top and on the southern side there are several disturbance hollows. On the northern side there is a slight ditch measuring c. 2m wide by 0.2m deep.
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
- Round Barrow on the WerfaRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Bwlch yr Avan DykeDykeunder 1 mi
- Crug yr Afan Round CairnRound Cairn1 mi
- Bethania Capel y Bedyddwyr (Welsh Baptist Chapel)Religious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.