Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tarren y Bwlch round cairn
Hirwaun, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
A scheduled monument in Hirwaun, Rhondda Cynon Taff, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 17 November 2003
- Community
- Hirwaun
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.71937, -3.52412
- SAM number
- GM565
- Cadw record number
- 1071
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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)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (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)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (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 round cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC). It is situated within open moorland on the crest of a north-north-west facing escarpment on Mynydd Bwllfa. The grass-covered cairn is circular on plan and measures 9m in diameter and up to 1.3m in height. There is substantial reed-filled hollow in the centre of the cairn, measuring about 2m in diameter and 0.4m in depth, which is presumably the result of antiquarian investigation.
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 secondary burial and ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence, including a buried prehistoric land surface.
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
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- Pont Lluest-WenTransport1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.