Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Clawdd Wood round barrow
Meifod, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Meifod, Powys, recorded as Round Barrow (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 10 September 2007
- Community
- Meifod
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.68976, -3.24160
- SAM number
- MG330
- Cadw record number
- 4307
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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 · 151 Welshpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (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 barrow, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated in enclosed pasture, on the leading edge of a ridge above Clawdd Wood and overlooking the valley containing the River Vyrnwy to the NW. The grass-covered barrow is circular on plan and measures about 12m in diameter and up to 0.4m in height. Although the barrow has been ploughed in the past, the majority of the base appears to remain intact and the barrow retains a definite profile. The adjacent hedgerow bends to respect the barrow.
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 structural evidence and intact burial or 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 15m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Clawdd Wood CampEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Clawdd LlesgLinear Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Cefn PentreAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Detached farm range at Cefn PentreAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.