Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Llanmadoc Hill, cairn on W end of
Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 16 March 2004
- Community
- Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.60865, -4.26902
- SAM number
- GM578
- Cadw record number
- 4055
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 large burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within open moorland on the summit of the ridge of Llanmadoc Hill. The stone built cairn is circular on plan and measures about 17.5m in diameter and up to 0.2m in height. The cairn has been disturbed in the past, with the addition of a walker's cairn; it now comprises a grass and heather covered stony circular platform. It may indeed have originally been a platform cairn (see nearby Rhossili Down round cairns, SAM GM194).
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 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
- The Old House, Delvid FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Plenty FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Well opposite St Cenydd's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- St Cenydd's LychgateReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.