Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Round Barrow on the Werfa
Ogmore Valley, Bridgend, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 30 January 1996
- Community
- Ogmore Valley
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.63583, -3.57105
- SAM number
- GM499
- Cadw record number
- 3438
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 earthen built round barrow, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The barrow is circular in shape and has a rounded profile. It is between 20m and 25m in diameter and about 1m high. The cairn is situated on high moorland.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The features are an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retain significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Barrows 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
- Carn y Hyrddod & Neighbouring CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Bwlch yr Avan DykeDykeunder 1 mi
- Crug yr Afan Round CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Bethania Capel y Bedyddwyr (Welsh Baptist Chapel)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.