Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pen-Lan-Mebws-Uchaf Burial Chamber
Mathry, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Mathry, Pembrokeshire, recorded as Chambered Tomb (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Chambered Tomb
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Mathry
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.92790, -5.06460
- SAM number
- PE131
- Cadw record number
- 3344
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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 chambered tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 4,400 BC - 2,900 BC). Chambered tombs were built and used by local farming communities over long periods of time. There appear to be many regional traditions and variations in shape and construction.
One single upright is all that remains of the formal burial chamber. It stands1.3m tall, and 2m wide and is very roughly situated in the centre of a field known locally as Y gromlech, (Tithe schedule).
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual. 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 and environmental and structural evidence, including a buried prehistoric land surface. Chambered tombs 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
- Standing Stone 400m NE of Pen-lan-MabwsStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- PenfeidrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tre-howellDomesticunder 1 mi
- Clyn-Ffwrn Burial ChamberChambered Tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.