Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Llyn y Tarw ritual complex
Aberhafesp, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Stone Circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 23 November 2000
- Community
- Aberhafesp
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.56729, -3.43932
- SAM number
- MG258
- Cadw record number
- 1679
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 a group of associated funerary and ritual monuments, probably dating from the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated to the E of Llyn y Tarw, within open moorland on the upland plateau of Bryn y Fawnog. The group comprises a large stone circle, at least four small burial cairns and a small stone alignment.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric ritual practices. The monument is well preserved and is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. The extensive surviving Bronze Age ritual landscape contained within this upland plateau - including several large round barrows, platform cairns and standing stones - further increases the importance of this central group.
The area to be scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular and measures 275m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Llyn y Tarw CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Bryn Du hut circleHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
- Pen y Groes Uchaf CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Ring Cairn 540m SW of Llyn y TarwRing Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.