Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tump Round Barrow
Hayscastle, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Hayscastle, Pembrokeshire, recorded as Round Barrow (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 22 September 1926
- Community
- Hayscastle
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.88076, -5.04921
- SAM number
- PE022
- Cadw record number
- 480
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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)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 209 St David's (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (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 earthen built round barrow, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The barrow is located on the summit of a broad hill and measures 120 yds in circumfrence (though only half can be measured). Tha barrow stands toa height of 7-8ft and is of earth and stone consruction.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The features are an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retain significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Barrows 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
- Rhyndaston-Fawr Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Castle MoundMotteunder 1 mi
- Plumstone Mountain Round Barrows (West)Round Barrowunder 1 mi
- Round Barrow 370m NW of MockwellRound Barrow1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.