Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Cregennen Cairns and Standing Stones
Arthog, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 17 January 1996
- Community
- Arthog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.70345, -3.97909
- SAM number
- ME151
- Cadw record number
- 916
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 Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises a group of seven cairns and three standing stones, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). Together these features represent the ritual landscape along an ancient routeway through the Meirionydd hills.
The importance of these features lies principally in their group value as indicators of the ritual significance of this area in the Bronze Age and the monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The 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, together with environmental and structural evidence. The proximity of wet ground and peat bog enhances the potential for the study of environmental archaeology.
The scheduled areas comprise the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Llynnau Cregennen Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Afon Arthog cup-marked rockCup Marked Stoneunder 1 mi
- Afon Arthog Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Nant-y-Gwyrddail BachDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.