Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Carnedd Das Eithin Round Cairn
Pen-y-bont-Fawr, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Pen-y-bont-Fawr, Powys, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 7 June 2001
- Community
- Pen-y-bont-Fawr
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.80404, -3.40862
- SAM number
- MG271
- Cadw record number
- 1360
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
- 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 Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the remains a burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC) and stands on a prominent on the summit of Dâs Eithin. The cairn measures 20m in diameter and 1.8m high and has a centreal hollow.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. 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, together with environmental and structural evidence. Cairns 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 with a 20m radius, centred on the cairn.
Nearby in the register
- Old Rectory, HirnantNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Ty'n-y-llanNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Barn Range at Cwmwr-uchafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cwmwr-uchafDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.