Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pengawse Ring Cairn
Llanddewi Velfrey, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Ring Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Llanddewi Velfrey
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.82344, -4.65389
- SAM number
- PE390
- Cadw record number
- 2725
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 ring cairn, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC) and which survives as a. crop mark indicating the surrounding ditch measuring c 20m in diameter and 2m wide.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The feature is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retains significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Ring cairns 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
- FronDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pengawse Medieval House SiteManorunder 1 mi
- Trewern MansionDomesticunder 1 mi
- Waundwrgi farmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.