Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ffridd round barrows
Pennal, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Pennal, Gwynedd, recorded as Round Barrow (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 19 February 2003
- Community
- Pennal
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.60217, -3.84502
- SAM number
- ME231
- Cadw record number
- 3994
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 149 Barmouth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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 two round barrows, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within improved pasture on the Dyfi valley floor. The northernmost barrow, Item A, is a grass-covered earthen mound, circular on plan and measuring 20m in diameter and up to 0.6m in height. The southernmost barrow, Item B, is a grass-covered earthen mound, circular on plan and measuring 21m in diameter and up to 0.8m in height.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual. The monument is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence, including a buried prehistoric land surface. Its survival within an area of improved agriculture is also very rare and further enhances its importance.
The areas scheduled comprise the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. Area A (SH 7516 0215) is circular and measures 30m in diameter. Area B (SH 7513 0204) is circular and measures 30m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Turnpike CottageTransportunder 1 mi
- Pont Felin-y-ffriddTransportunder 1 mi
- Pont Felin y ffridd (partly in Corris Community)No class recordedunder 1 mi
- Pen-y-bont CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.