Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Carn Briw Round Cairn
Newport, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 4 February 2009
- Community
- Newport
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.99797, -4.83265
- SAM number
- PE544
- Cadw record number
- 1275
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 large round cairn, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). It is located on the summit of Carningli Common. The stone-built cairn is circular in shape on plan and measures 18m in diameter and 2.2m in height. The upper cairn fabric has been re-fashioned into three walkers' shelters and is surmounted by a modern walkers' cairn. The N side of the cairn has been denuded at its perimeter leaving a prominent outer lip, but the central cairn mass does not appear to have been disturbed.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The 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 structural evidence and intact burial or ritual deposits.
The area proposed for scheduling comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular and measures 30m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Carn Ingli Common Hut CirclesUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Carn Ingli CampHillfortunder 1 mi
- Carn Llwyd ring cairnRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Carn Ffoi CampHillfortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.