Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Freni-Fach Round Barrow
Clydey, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 2 August 1950
- Community
- Clydey
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.98377, -4.58488
- SAM number
- PE204
- Cadw record number
- 3044
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (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 measures 60ft in diameter and 5ft high. It has a sunken and uneven surface and appears disturbed.
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
- FronhaulDomesticunder 1 mi
- Round Barrow on E Slope of Freni FawrRound Barrow1 mi
- Stable range at Glogue FarmAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
- Glogue FarmhouseDomestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.