Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Foresters' Oaks round barrow
Caerwent, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 23 September 2004
- Community
- Caerwent
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.64271, -2.82548
- SAM number
- MM333
- Cadw record number
- 4148
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (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, a burial mound probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within a clearing within forestry on a slight terrace above the valley containing the Nant y Pridd. The barrow is circular on plan and measures about 16m in diameter and up to 1m in height.
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 burial or ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence, including a buried prehistoric land surface.
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 20m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Grey Hill Stone CircleStone Circleunder 1 mi
- Two Round Barrows 180m North West of Wentwood LodgeRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Cil-voynog Farmhouse and attached barnDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tile Farm (Ysgubor Kemeys)Domestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.