Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Siglem Las conjoined round cairns
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
- 23 August 2007
- Community
- Pen-y-bont-Fawr
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.80018, -3.44620
- SAM number
- MG316
- Cadw record number
- 4242
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 of two conjoined burial cairns, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within enclosed moorland on a SW-facing terrace below a locally prominent summit. The pair are aligned from NNE to SSW, with the larger cairn on the SSW. This cairn measures 5.5m in diameter and 0.4m in height. A large central cist has been exposed, measuring c.1m from NNE to SSW by 0.8m transversely within several upright stones. The cairn immediately to the NNE abuts the first and measures c.5m in diameter and 0.4m in height. There is an indistinct central hollow and what may be a displaced capstone lying on the NE side.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and 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 both intact burial or ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence. Although disturbed in the past - both cairns have central hollows, presumably the result of antiquarian investigation or robbing - the pair form a structurally well preserved and unusual monument. The topographical association of the pair with nearby monuments of similar provenance - Bronze Age funerary monuments - further increases the archaeological potential and importance of the site.
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 28m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Bwlch Sych round cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Afon y Dolau Gwynion kerb cairnKerb Cairnunder 1 mi
- Carnedd Cerrig 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.