Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rhos Goch Round Barrow
Boncath, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 30 January 1959
- Community
- Boncath
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.97574, -4.62582
- SAM number
- PE324
- Cadw record number
- 3070
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 earthen built round barrow, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The barrow measures 36ft in diameter and around 1ft high with some stone visible on the surface.
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
- Round Barrows on Summit of Freni FawrRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Round Barrow on W Slope of Freni FawrRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Round Barrow on E Slope of Freni FawrRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Round Barrow 270m SW of Crymych ArmsRound Barrow1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.