Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mynydd y Gelli kerb cairn
Ystrad, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Kerb Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Ystrad
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.63535, -3.48145
- SAM number
- GM354
- Cadw record number
- 2287
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 Bronze Age kerb cairn, situated on a gently sloping north-west-facing terrace on the summit of Mynydd y Gelli and surrounded on all sides (bar the north-west) by slightly higher terrain. It survives as a partially complete orthostatic ring situated within open moorland, the interior of the site now largely devoid of stone. The kerb is circular on plan and measures about 9.5m in diameter and up to 0.4m in height; it is tilted slightly towards the NW. The cairn survives as a ring of eight orthostatic stones - but probably originally comprised fifteen stones, each set about 1.5m apart. No trace of a bank survives, if one existed - the build up of earth on the south-south-east arc is irregular and may represent spoil from the hole that has been opened within the south quarter of the interior. This hole is probably the result of antiquarian investigations recorded from the early 20th century.
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 and environmental and structural evidence.
The area to be scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
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- Bethesda Welsh Independent ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The Star PHCommercial1 mi
- Statue of Sir Archibald HoodCommemorative1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.