Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mynydd y Garth Cairn
Pontardawe, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A scheduled monument in Pontardawe, Neath Port Talbot, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 28 January 2011
- Community
- Pontardawe
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.75289, -3.87010
- SAM number
- GM612
- Cadw record number
- 1276
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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)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 230 Ammanford (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 230 Ammanford (Outline) (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, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). It is situated on the south-facing slopes of Mynydd y Garth. The stone-built cairn is roughly circular in shape on plan and measures 12m in diameter and up to 1m in height. Kerbstones are visible on the north and north-west sides. The centre of the cairn mound has been disturbed, but the monument survives substantially intact.
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. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence, including a buried prehistoric land surface.
The area scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Saron Old ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- Carn Llechart Stone CircleRound Cairn1 mi
- Burial Chamber Nr Carn LlechartChambered Tomb1 mi
- Church of Saint CiwgReligious, Ritual and Funerary2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.