Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Parc Castell Round Barrow
Puncheston, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Puncheston, Pembrokeshire, recorded as Round Barrow (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 26 January 2006
- Community
- Puncheston
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.90839, -4.87901
- SAM number
- PE515
- Cadw record number
- 3
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 210 Cardigan (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 210 Cardigan (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (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.
Parc Castell comprises the remains of a large prehistoric round barrow, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 BC - 800 BC). The grass-covered barrow is situated in improved pasture on a gentle SW facing slope. It is circular on plan, measuring about 18m in diameter and up to 0.75m in height.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial rites, social organisation and the environment. The monument retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of both structural evidence and the presence of intact burial or ritual deposits within, and prehistoric ground surfaces preserved below, the barrow.
The area to be scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular on plan and measures 30m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Castle FlemishEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Woodstock Calvinistic Methodist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Castell MoundMotte1 mi
- Long Hook Fawr FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.