Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Morlais Hill ring cairn
Pant, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
A scheduled monument in Pant, Merthyr Tydfil, recorded as Ring Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Ring Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 1 December 2003
- Community
- Pant
- Unitary authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.77741, -3.37470
- SAM number
- GM563
- Cadw record number
- 4013
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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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 231 Merthyr Tydfil (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 ring cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC). It is situated on a ridge between two fairways on Morlais Hill Golf Course. The ring cairn is circular on plan and measures 26m in diameter within a grass-covered earthen bank spread to 2.5m in thickness and up to 0.4m in height. There are several stones visible within the bank material and the internal surface of the monument is uneven. There is a gap in the south-south-east side of the ring bank, measuring about 3m in breadth. An unusual subrectangular spur of earth and stone extends about 9m from the north side of the ring bank and measures about 4m in thickness. This stony protrusion is probably the result of clearance.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual. 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 and ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence.
The area scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Morlais CastleCastleunder 1 mi
- Merthyr Tramroad: Morlais Castle sectionTramroadunder 1 mi
- Pont-SarnTransportunder 1 mi
- Gravestone of Robert Thompson Crawshay and surrounding railingsNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.