Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Foel Cwm Sian Llŵyd cairn
Llangywer, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 30 June 2004
- Community
- Llangywer
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.87365, -3.49153
- SAM number
- ME243
- Cadw record number
- 4100
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 burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within open moorland on the N end of the ridge of Foel Cwm Sian Llŵyd. There are good views in all directions, except for the SW.
The grass-covered stone-built cairn is circular on plan and measures about 15m in diameter and up to 1.5m in height on its N side. A large rectangular drystone shooting butt has been raised on its summit.
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 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 an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular and measures 30m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Blaen y Cwm FarmhouseDomestic2 mi
- Pen Cerrig Standing StoneStanding Stone2 mi
- Ffridd yr Eglwys Deserted Rural SettlementRectangular hut3 mi
- Pale HallDomestic3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.