Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Llyn Eiddew Bach Ring Cairn I
Talsarnau, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Ring Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 17 February 2003
- Community
- Talsarnau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.89514, -4.01397
- SAM number
- ME209
- Cadw record number
- 3936
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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 an unusual, well-preserved ring cairn which probably date to the Early Bronze Age (c. 2000-1500 BC). It comprises a circular bank of turfed-over stones some 10m in diameter, 1.0m wide and 0.5m high. In the centre of the cairn stands a small standing stone some 0.60m high, 0.90m wide and 0.10m thick with its long axis aligned east to west. The cairn is largely buried beneath blanket peat. The monument is associated with the Fonllech Hir prehistoric trackway and the Bryn Cader-Faner cairn circle.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The feature is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retains significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of intact ritual and burial deposits, structural evidence and preserved prehistoric ground surfaces below the monument. Since the cairn is largely buried beneath blanket peat it also retains considerable palaeo-environmental potential. Ring cairns may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can be further enhanced by their group value.
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
- Bryn Cader-Faner Round CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Llyn Eiddew Bach Ring Cairn IIRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Llyn Eiddew Bach Round CairnsKerb Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.