Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Two Round Cairns on the Bryn
Aber Valley, Caerphilly, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 26 October 1994
- Community
- Aber Valley
- Unitary authority
- Caerphilly
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.61061, -3.24841
- SAM number
- GM463
- Cadw record number
- 3286
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 two burial cairns, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC).
Cairn A - This cairn is 25m in diameter and 2m high. A large excavation crater 9m across is located within the centre of the cairn with a side slab of cist partially exposed in the bottom.
Cairn B - This is a ring cairn measuring 13.5m in diameter by 0.5m high.
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
- Bryn Owen Farm Cairns, LlanfabonRound Cairnunder 1 mi
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- Former Llanbradach Colliery middle revetment wallNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Former Llanbradach Colliery brick reservoirIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.