Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ring Cairn 350m W of Penrhiw Caradoc, Llanwonno
Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 21 August 1975
- Community
- Mountain Ash
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.67232, -3.38631
- SAM number
- GM373
- Cadw record number
- 391
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 ring cairn of earth and stone, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). It is situated on top of a south-westward spur on open moorland. The cairn is turf covered and measures c. 10m in diameter and is surrounded by a low bank c. 3m wide by 0.5m high.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The feature is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retains significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Ring 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
- Elim Pentecostal ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Mountain Ash Workman's Club and InstituteRecreationalunder 1 mi
- Mountain Ash Town HallNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Aberdare HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.