Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rhos-Gwawr cairn cemetery
Aberaman, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
A scheduled monument in Aberaman, Rhondda Cynon Taff, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 26 July 1979
- Community
- Aberaman
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.69610, -3.45896
- SAM number
- GM404
- Cadw record number
- 388
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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)
- 1907 · 248 Pontypridd (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 cairn cemetery containing a number of small burial mounds probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC). The cemetery is situated in enclosed rough pasture on the summit of the ridge of Rhos-Gwawr.
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 exceptional size of the complex, which also contains several larger burial cairns, further increases its importance.
The areas scheduled comprise the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Blaengwawr Farmhouse with attached farm rangeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Blaengwawr HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Remains of Iron Furnace at CwmamanBlast Furnace1 mi
- Presbytery at Catholic Church of St JosephReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.