Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Craig y Ganllwyd Cairn and Cist
Ganllwyd, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Platform Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 25 February 2003
- Community
- Ganllwyd
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.81222, -3.90227
- SAM number
- ME221
- Cadw record number
- 3942
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 well-preserved and largely intact round platform cairn, a burial monument constructed from stones and probably dating to the Early Bronze Age (c.2000-1500 BC). The cairn lies on a saddle of Carn y Ganllwyd within what is now Coed y Brenin Forest and measures 8m in diameter and stands 0.4m high. In the centre of the cairn are the remains of a stone box or "cist" which once held the body or ashes of those interred in the monument.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual and forms an important element of a wider prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits and structural and environmental evidence, including a buried prehistoric land surface.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Lower Barn at CefndeuddwrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Upper Barn at CefndeuddwrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Byre (former Dower House) at CefndeuddwrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cefndeuddwr FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.