Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Carn-y-Pigwn Round Cairn
Ferndale, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Ferndale
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.66674, -3.43017
- SAM number
- GM372
- Cadw record number
- 3115
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 a burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). It is situated on the ridge top in moorland. The cairn measures c. 12m in diameter by c. 1m high with an Ordnance Survey trig point on the top. It is turf covered with large slabs scatterd all over its surface.
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
- Twyn y Bridallt Roman CampMarching Campunder 1 mi
- Penuel Calvinistic Methodist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Trehondda Welsh Independent ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of Our Lady of PenrhysReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.