Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Blaen y Cwm Round Cairns
Carno, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Carno, Powys, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 27 December 2001
- Community
- Carno
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.55156, -3.59293
- SAM number
- MG293
- Cadw record number
- 3859
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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 · 164 Llanidloes (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (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 two burial cairns, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). Cairn I measures 7m in diameter x 0.2m high and cairn II measures 4m in diameter x 0.3m high.
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 two circles, one measuring 9m in diameter and centred on cairn I, the other 6m in diameter and centred on cairn II.
Nearby in the register
- Twr Gwyn Mawr Round CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Carreg Lwyd Ritual ComplexStone Rowunder 1 mi
- Bryn yr Aran Ring Cairn and Ritual PlatformRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Esgair Draenllwyn Stone SettingStone Settingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.