Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mynydd March Hywel Round Cairn
Crynant, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 26 July 1999
- Community
- Crynant
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.72856, -3.77713
- SAM number
- GM531
- Cadw record number
- 1600
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 burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The cairn measures c. 12m in diameter and c. 1.5m high. Constructed from local limestone, the centre of the cairn has been robbed-out in antiquity.
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
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- Walls of barn to NW of Gelli Galed FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Gelli Galed FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cefn Coed Colliery, No. 2 Shaft HeadframeIndustrial1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.