Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garreg Round Cairn
Llanfair, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 12 December 1979
- Community
- Llanfair
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.85780, -4.08216
- SAM number
- ME107
- Cadw record number
- 3229
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.
The monument comprises the remains of a burial cairn, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). An annular bank of rubble 3.5 m wide with an overall diameter of approximately 20 m and possible traces of inner and outer kerb stones, but very irregular and robbed. The enclosed area is full of field clearance debris. Possibly either a kerb cairn or ring cairn ; the proximity of the Garreg standing stone (Me 57b), only 25 m to the NW, adds further interest.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The features are an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retain significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Cairns may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Field Barn at Drws yr YmlidAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Barn at Drws yr Ymlid FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Pigsty & Brewhouse at Drws yr Ymlid Farm (including rubble-walled yard between)Agriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Fowl House at Drws yr Ymlid Farm (including rubble-walled yard)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.