Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bronze Age round barrow NW of Glan-marteg
St. Harmon, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in St. Harmon, Powys, recorded as Round Barrow (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 31 August 2001
- Community
- St. Harmon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.35508, -3.48043
- SAM number
- RD042
- Cadw record number
- 3862
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 179 Rhyader (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (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 earthen built round barrow, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The barrow measures 21m in diameter at its base and rises to a central height of over 1m. Four smaller barrows, which may be contemporary, are located a short distance to the north.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The features are an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retain significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Barrows 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. It is a circle with a diameter of 28m, centred on the cairn.
Nearby in the register
- Round Barrows 400m NNW of Beili HwlynRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Bronze Age tumulus north of Beili HaulwenRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Beili-Bedw EarthworksDeserted Rural Settlementunder 1 mi
- Field barn at Gors FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.