Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cefn Caer Euni Round Cairn
Llandderfel, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 24 June 2003
- Community
- Llandderfel
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.95322, -3.50645
- SAM number
- ME227
- Cadw record number
- 3943
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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 large, impressive and largely intact burial cairn, probably dating to the Early Bronze Age (c.2000-1500 BC). The monument consists of a turfed-over round cairn of stones, some 12.5m in diameter and 1.40m high. The site stands within 330m of the excavated Cefn Caer Euni kerb circle and ring cairn (ME040 dated by radiocarbon to c.1400 BC).
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 and preserved prehistoric ground surfaces below the monument. 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
- Caer Euni Stone CirclesRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Bethel Congregational ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Caer Euni CampHillfortunder 1 mi
- Ty tan-y-fforddDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.