Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mynydd Ty'n-tyle cairns
Ferndale, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 14 November 2003
- Community
- Ferndale
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.65706, -3.45799
- SAM number
- GM574
- Cadw record number
- 4047
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 three burial cairns, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC). They are situated on the saddle below and to the north-east of Mynydd Ty'n-tyle, on the main ridge of Cefn y Rhondda. The cairns are described individually in turn from north to south. The northernmost cairn (Item A) measures 7m in diameter and up to 0.4m in height. The central cairn (Item B) is situated about 170m to the south-east of the first. It measures 13m in diameter and up to 0.6m in height. The southernmost cairn (Item C) is situated immediately to the south-west of the central cairn. It measures 5m in diameter and up to 0.4m in height.
The monument is of national importance as an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence, including traces of a buried prehistoric land surface underneath the cairns.
The scheduled areas comprise the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
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- Trehondda Welsh Independent ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of Our Lady of PenrhysReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Tyntyla FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.