Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Beacons Round Barrows
Llanharan, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Llanharan
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.54607, -3.41844
- SAM number
- GM280
- Cadw record number
- 2266
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 of two earthen built round barrows, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). Both barrows are circular in shape on plan and have a rounded profile. They are situated next to each other on top of the hill overlooking the coastal plain.
Barrow A - (Western Barrow) - measures 15m in diameter by 3.5m high. There are three hollows; two on top and one at the top on the west slope.
Barrow B - (Eastern Barrow) - measures 15m in diameter and 3m high. The top appears as irregular bumps and hollows.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The features are an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retain significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Barrows 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
- Stable block at Llanharan HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Old Laundry at Llanharan HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Courtyard wall linking house and stable block at Llanharan HouseGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Llanharan HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.