Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bwlch Sych round cairn
Pen-y-bont-Fawr, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 23 August 2007
- Community
- Pen-y-bont-Fawr
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.80238, -3.44564
- SAM number
- MG315
- Cadw record number
- 4247
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 round cairn, a burial mound probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated on a prominent local summit above Bwlch Sych. The stone-built cairn is circular on plan and measures about 6.5m in diameter and about 0.3m in height. A disturbed central cist is visible, measuring about 1.5m from NW to SE by about 0.4m transversely within upright side slabs and collapsed end slabs. The large capstone has been displaced to the SW.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The well-preserved 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 and environmental and structural evidence, including a buried prehistoric land surface.
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 22m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Siglem Las conjoined round cairnsRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Carnedd Cerrig kerb cairnKerb Cairnunder 1 mi
- Afon y Dolau Gwynion kerb cairnKerb Cairnunder 1 mi
- Chambered Cairn above Afon y Dolau Gwynion, NE of Lake VyrnwyChambered round cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.