Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Castell Blaidd 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)
- 51.94774, -4.56120
- SAM number
- PE207
- Cadw record number
- 3548
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 an earthen built round barrow, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The barrow measures c 19m in diameter and is 0.3-0.4min height. When quarried for road stone before 1887 three or four inverted urn cremations were uncovered and subsequently replaced.
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
- Maen Gwyn HirStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Henfeddau Fawr Defended EnclosureEnclosure - Defensiveunder 1 mi
- Pantgwyn MawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding at Pantgwyn MawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.