Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cwm Bwchel round cairn
Crucorney, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 2 April 2009
- Community
- Crucorney
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.93875, -3.05477
- SAM number
- MM343
- Cadw record number
- 4323
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 burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated in open moorland on the rounded terrace on the NE facing slopes of Bal-Mawr. The stone-built cairn is circular on plan and measures about 15.5m in diameter and up to 1.4m in height. Although it has been disturbed in the past - the bulk of the cairn has been cleared to one side to reveal a well-preserved central cist - the base of the cairn remains intact and undisturbed. The cist measures 2m from ENE to WSW by 0.4m transversely and is 0.65m in depth.
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 30m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Barn at Cwm Bwchel FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cwm Bwchel FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former External Kitchen at Cwm Bwchel FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stable Range at Cwm Bwchel FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.