Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Craig Las cairn
Arthog, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 17 February 2003
- Community
- Arthog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.70695, -3.95337
- SAM number
- ME239
- Cadw record number
- 3998
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 round cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within rough grazing on the NE-facing flank of Craig-las. The stone-built cairn is circular on plan and measures 6m in diameter and up to 1.2m in height. There is a fine exposed cist in the centre of the cairn, measuring 0.8m in length by 0.45m transversely and 0.6m in depth. The cairn has been constructed around a large angular boulder, against which the cist has been built.
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 secondary burial or ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence, including a buried prehistoric land surface.
The area scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular and measures 15m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Carnedd Lwyd cairnsRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Stable Block at Nant-y-GwyrddailDomesticunder 1 mi
- Nant-y-Gwyrddail FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Nant-y-Gwyrddail BachDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.