Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Croes y Bwlchgwyn Round Cairn
Garw Valley, Bridgend, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 13 June 1956
- Community
- Garw Valley
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.60495, -3.60547
- SAM number
- GM250
- Cadw record number
- 3112
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 the west side of the ridge top. The cairn is grass covered and measures 8m in diameter by 1m high. The surface is uneven - particularly on the north side.
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 Cairn 567m East of Bryn DefaidRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Ffaldau Workmen's Institute and attached Billiard HallRecreational1 mi
- Former Cooperative BakeryCommercial1 mi
- Tabernacl Capel yr Annibynwyr (Welsh Independent) including vestry wingReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.