Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Aran Fawddwy Cairn
Llanuwchllyn, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 19 November 2007
- Community
- Llanuwchllyn
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.78699, -3.68791
- SAM number
- ME258
- Cadw record number
- 1184
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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 large burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC). It is located on the summit of Aran Fawddwy immediately adjacent to the top of an E facing 300m high cliff. The cairn enjoys excellent all-round views. The stone-built cairn is circular in shape on plan and measures c.16m in diameter. The cairn is flat-topped in profile and measures c.4m in height. The cairn material has not been disturbed or excavated. An Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar has been erected on the E side of the cairn.
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 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 20m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Y BwthynTransport2 mi
- Dolddeuli Standing StoneStanding Stone2 mi
- Former Cart House at the Hywel Dda HotelAgriculture and Subsistence2 mi
- Hywel Dda HotelCommercial2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.