Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Allt Gethin Round Cairn
Llandinam, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 28 September 2001
- Community
- Llandinam
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.47566, -3.42158
- SAM number
- MG303
- Cadw record number
- 1378
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 a burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC) and stands in a spectacular position on the edge of a rocky outcrop on the summit of Allt Gethin, with extensive views across the Severn Valley to the north and west. The cairn is visible as a turf-covered heap of boulders, some 12m in diameter 0.5m 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 a circle and measures 15m in diameter, centred on the cairn.
Nearby in the register
- Llandinam Presbyterian Church with front enclosing railed wallReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 6 TrelonyddDomesticunder 1 mi
- 5 TrelonyddDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 TrelonyddDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.