Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cairn 200m SE of Foel Ystrodur Fawr
Llanuwchllyn, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llanuwchllyn, Gwynedd, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 16 August 2006
- Community
- Llanuwchllyn
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.88984, -3.76123
- SAM number
- ME256
- Cadw record number
- 1179
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 · 136 Bala (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 a small burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 BC - 800 BC). It is located on a terrace towards the bottom of the SE facing flank of Foel Ystrodur Fawr in an enclosed field of unimproved upland grazing. The terrace overlooks a wet and boggy plateau of moorland. The cairn is circular in shape on plan and measures c. 5.5m in diameter. The cairn is shallow and rounded in profile, measuring c. 0.4m tall.
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 evidence. The cairn is c. 750m W of, and possibly associated with, Scheduled Monument No. ME199, a prehistoric hut circle settlement. The cairn is located in a wet and boggy position and may retain palaeo-environmental and dating evidence.
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 10m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Llechwedd Erwent Hut Circle SettlementUnenclosed hut circle settlementunder 1 mi
- Cairn 300m SE of Bryn CauRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Bancian Duon Hut Circle Settlement and Deserted Rural SettlementUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Arenig Fawr CairnRound Cairn2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.