Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rhondda Fach Cairn
Rhigos, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 10 May 2000
- Community
- Rhigos
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.70947, -3.52698
- SAM number
- GM541
- Cadw record number
- 1631
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 8m in diameter and is 1m 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
- Tarren y Bwlch round cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Craig y Bwlch round cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Pont Lluest-WenTransportunder 1 mi
- Garn BicaRound Cairn1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.