Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Creigiau'r Llyn cairn cemetery
Llanwddyn, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llanwddyn, Powys, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 7 March 2006
- Community
- Llanwddyn
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.78105, -3.53607
- SAM number
- MG319
- Cadw record number
- 4243
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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 small barrow cemetery, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within open moorland on the summit of the locally prominent ridge of Creigiau'r Llyn, extending to the ESE of Bryn Mawr. The barrow cemetery comprises at least three grass-covered cairns or barrows. The cairns range in size from 3.5m to 4.5m in diameter and stand up to 0.4m in height.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual. The monument is an important and unusual 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 buried prehistoric land surfaces. The extensive surrounding areas of bog and peat further enhance the importance of the monument - not only can associated paleoenvironmental evidence be expected to survive, the peat may hide further cairns and ritual deposits.
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 about 55m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Pont EunantTransportunder 1 mi
- Cwm-yr-hafod BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- New BridgeTransport2 mi
- Bryn Gwyn Deserted Rural SettlementDeserted Rural Settlement2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.