Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tarren Maerdy cairn (E)
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)
- 51.66331, -3.47543
- SAM number
- GM575
- Cadw record number
- 4040
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 BC - 800 BC). It is situated within open moorland, immediately below the south-east end of a local summit on the main ridge of Cefn y Rhondda. The stone-built cairn is circular on plan and measures about 8m in diameter and up to 0.4m in height. The remains of a stone cist are visible, with a large flat capstone lying immediately to the south-west, partially overlying the south-east side of the cist.
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 or ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence, including a buried prehistoric land surface.
The area to be scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Tarren Maerdy cairn (W)Round Cairnunder 1 mi
- Mynydd Ty'n-tyle cairnsRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- St.Peter's Parish ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Fountain to SW of St. Peter's churchCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.