Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cairn on the Blorenge
Llanfoist Fawr, Monmouthshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llanfoist Fawr, Monmouthshire, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 1 June 1994
- Community
- Llanfoist Fawr
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.80060, -3.06018
- SAM number
- MM219
- Cadw record number
- 3147
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (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 burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). It is 15m in diameter and 2m high. A stone cist within the cairn is 1.4m long, 0.7m wide and 1m deep, formed of vertically set slabs. The capstone has been moved to one side. Some of the stones of the cairn have been used for the construction of a circular sheep fold adjacent to the cairn. There is a Trig Point and a roughly built square shelter, probably built by walkers, to the W of the cairn.
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, together with environmental and structural evidence. Cairns may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Blorenge Quarries TramroadTramroadunder 1 mi
- Blorenge Tunnel, Hill's TramroadTramroadunder 1 mi
- Hill's Tramroad Inclines, LlanfoistTramroadunder 1 mi
- Garnddyrys Ironworks (Site of) and adjacent TramwayIronworksunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.