Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cnwc Round Cairns
Maenclochog, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 16 March 1960
- Community
- Maenclochog
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.93885, -4.78489
- SAM number
- PE343
- Cadw record number
- 1001
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 two burial cairns that probably date to the Bronze Age (c.2300 – 800 BC). The northern cairn measures c 28m in diameter and is 1.8m high. The southern cairn which measures c 25m in diameter and is 0.2m high has signs of an external ditch.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The well-preserved 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. .
The area scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Mynydd Crwn standing stoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Foel Cwm-Cerwyn Round CairnsRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Telephone call box at Old Post Office.Communicationsunder 1 mi
- Rosebush HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.