Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cairn 270m N of Pont Ffosyrhebog
Darran Valley, Caerphilly, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 14 March 1968
- Community
- Darran Valley
- Unitary authority
- Caerphilly
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.71684, -3.28572
- SAM number
- GM313
- Cadw record number
- 2276
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 a burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). It is situated on open moorland on the Gelligaer Common plateau. The cairn is small, measuring 6m in diameter by 0.6m high. It is turf covered with some stones protruding on the inside. In the middle is one upright stone slab of the cist which measures 1m by 0.5m facing north-south.
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
- Platform Houses on East Side of Gelligaer CommonPlatform houseunder 1 mi
- Pant Ffos-yr-hebog Cup-Marked StoneCup Marked Stoneunder 1 mi
- Ogilivie Colliery Explosives StoreIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Gelligaer Common Round CairnsRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.