Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Carnedd Lwyd cairns
Arthog, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 28 April 2003
- Community
- Arthog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.70326, -3.95095
- SAM number
- ME241
- Cadw record number
- 1069
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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 substantial remains of a group of burial cairns, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within rough grazing on a local prominence below and to the E of the summit of Tyrrau Mawr. There are four burial cairns on the level knoll, roughly aligned on the NW, NE, SE and SW. The cairns are described individually in turn from NW to SW and have been inventoried as Carnedd Lwyd cairns A - D. The cairns are largely circular on plan and measure between 11m and 15m in diameter and up to 2.5m 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.
The area scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is rectangular and measures 85m from NNE to SSW by 50m transversely.
Nearby in the register
- Craig Las cairnRound 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.