Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Graig-y-Gilfach round cairn and earthwork
Cwmbach, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
A scheduled monument in Cwmbach, Rhondda Cynon Taff, recorded as Round Barrow (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 5 October 1961
- Community
- Cwmbach
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.72090, -3.40601
- SAM number
- GM288
- Cadw record number
- 621
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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 a round burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC). It is situated on the leading south-west-facing edge of the summit of Twyn Gwersyllfa. The grass-covered cairn is circular on plan and measures about 9.5m in diameter and up to 0.7m in height. A further monument is included within the schedule, situated 150m to the south-east this feature comprises a sub-circular shallow ditch and is of uncertain antiquity or function.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual. The well-preserved 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 further burial or ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence, including a buried prehistoric land surface.
The area to be scheduled comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Garn Las EarthworkRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Carn Castell y Meibion ring cairnRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- GwersyllEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Darren Fawr Round CairnsRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.