Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Round Barrow 370m NW of Mockwell
Hayscastle, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 15 February 2006
- Community
- Hayscastle
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.88794, -5.02448
- SAM number
- PE520
- Cadw record number
- 1161
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (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 prehistoric round barrow, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 BC - 800 BC). The mostly turf-covered barrow is situated in improved grassland on a SE facing slope. It measures c. 20m in diameter and c. 0.7m 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 35m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Brimaston GrangeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty RhosDomestic1 mi
- Plumstone Mountain Round Barrow (East)Round Barrow1 mi
- Tump Round BarrowRound Barrow1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.