Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Block Wood Round Barrow
Kerry, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 22 November 2000
- Community
- Kerry
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.46833, -3.24878
- SAM number
- MG256
- Cadw record number
- 1680
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a earthen built round barrow, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The barrow is situated within forestry and measures 20m in diameter and stands to a height of 2m.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The features are an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retain significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Barrows 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. It is a circle measuring 26m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Kerry Hill Stone CircleStone Circleunder 1 mi
- Icehouse at HillgateDomestic1 mi
- Upper Cwm-y-ddalfaDomestic1 mi
- Mile marker at CilthriewTransport1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.