Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Darren Fawr Round Cairns
Cwmbach, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
A scheduled monument in Cwmbach, Rhondda Cynon Taff, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 5 October 1961
- Community
- Cwmbach
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.71216, -3.40045
- SAM number
- GM287
- Cadw record number
- 2272
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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)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 231 Merthyr Tydfil (Hills) (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 burial cairns, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The two cairns lie on a north-south orientation. The most northerly of the cairns is an irregular mound c. 16m in diameter and 1.5m high. It consists of a pile of stones largely covered by grass but exposed on the top. In the centre a cist measuring 1.2m by 0.75m wide by 1m deep is exposed in a hollow c. 1.5m deep. Large slabs of stone line two sides of it. There are more large stones on the surface of the top of the cairn. The southernmost cairn is round, 2m high with a flat top and a diameter of 15m. It is composed of small stones and has a large quarry hole in the middle, 3m in diameter and 1.5m 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
- Carn Castell y Meibion ring cairnRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Graig-y-Gilfach round cairn and earthworkRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Garn Las EarthworkRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- GwersyllEnclosure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.