Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Afon y Dolau Gwynion kerb cairn
Pen-y-bont-Fawr, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Pen-y-bont-Fawr, Powys, recorded as Kerb Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Kerb 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)
- 52.79586, -3.44749
- SAM number
- MG318
- Cadw record number
- 4244
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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 of a kerb cairn, a burial mound probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated on the SW-facing slopes above the Afon y Dolau Gwynion. The stone-built cairn is circular on plan and measures about 5m in diameter and up to 0.3m in height. Although disturbed in the past - the cairn has a central hollow and what is probably a displaced capstone - the kerb of edge-set stones that defines the cairn remains intact and well-preserved.
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 and environmental and structural evidence. The structural integrity of the kerb, the wider landscape context (the cairn is situated within an area rich in prehistoric funerary monuments) and the potential of the surrounding boggy ground to provide associated paleoenvironmental evidence all further increase the importance of the monument.
The area 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
- Carnedd Cerrig kerb cairnKerb Cairnunder 1 mi
- Siglem Las conjoined round cairnsRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Chambered Cairn above Afon y Dolau Gwynion, NE of Lake VyrnwyChambered round cairnunder 1 mi
- Bwlch Sych round cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.