Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bryn Cader-Faner Round Cairn
Talsarnau, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Talsarnau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.89824, -4.01133
- SAM number
- ME061
- Cadw record number
- 3214
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Monument.
A reasonably well-preserved cairn with a circle of uprights protruding from the cairn at an angle. Some of these are now missing and others at a more marked angle than originally intended, but the silhouette from the SW, from which direction the monument is skylined, is probably not too much different from its original appearance; remarkably, considering the amount of time which has passed since it was built.
The centre, which contained a cist, has been robbed. What is probably one of the missing uprights lies on the lip of the hole, and at least some of the cist slabs are visible within it. Another upright, now almost horizontal, is in its original position but practically buried by the stones of the cairn. With the 18 still more or less upright, only perhaps 6 or 7 are missing, although one of the 18 is apparently a recent addition and not an original stone.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric funerary and ritual activities. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Settlements SW of Bryn Cader FanerHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
- Llyn Eiddew Bach Ring Cairn IRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Hut Circles East of Moel GeifrHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
- Y Gyrn Round CairnsRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.