Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Y Domen Fawr round cairn
Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 26 July 2005
- Community
- Ebbw Vale
- Unitary authority
- Blaenau Gwent
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.75698, -3.20953
- SAM number
- GM588
- Cadw record number
- 4209
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 is situated on the north-east side of a prominent ridge on Cefn Manmoel. The stone-built cairn is roughly circular on plan and measures about 12m in diameter and up to 1m in height. A small rectangular brick and concrete structure (probably a pillbox or observation post dating from WWII) has been inserted into its north-west side. However, the remainder of the cairn is substantially intact. The cairn commands fine views over the valley to the east.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The well-preserved 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
- The Fountain InnCommercialunder 1 mi
- Stables and Barn at the Fountain InnDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cefn Man Moel cross-ridge dykeCross Ridge Dykeunder 1 mi
- Entrance Gates and Railings at Christ ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.