Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Site 450m NW of Glan Mule (revealed by aerial photography)
Kerry, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Ring Ditch
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Kerry
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.50728, -3.23063
- SAM number
- MG172
- Cadw record number
- 712
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1637 "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (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 consists of a ring ditch. These are circular or near circular ditches, usually seen as cropmarks. Ring ditches may be the remains of ploughed out round barrows. This monument appears to comprise a segmented ditch enclosing circular area c 25-30 metres in diameter.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The feature is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retains significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Ring ditches may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Glan-Mule bridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Smithy at the corner of the Abermiwl and Churchstoke roadsDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Old CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Great Cloddiau CampEnclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.