Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Carn Caglau cairn
Glyncorrwg, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A scheduled monument in Glyncorrwg, Neath Port Talbot, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 7 January 2004
- Community
- Glyncorrwg
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.69104, -3.64972
- SAM number
- GM577
- Cadw record number
- 4045
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1907 · 248 Pontypridd (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 burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and is situated within an open forest ride, on the summit of Mynydd Blaen-nant-du. The grass and heather-covered stone-built cairn is circular on plan and measures about 10m in diameter and up to 0.9m in height.
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 scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Bryn Llydan Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- The Hall (formerly Glyncorrwg Workmen's Institute and Memorial Hall)Institutional1 mi
- Camp 280m S of Melin Court BrookEnclosure1 mi
- Former Brewhouse and Stable at Ynys Corrwg FarmAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.