Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ty-Lettice Round Barrow
Nantmel, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Nantmel
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.30681, -3.48245
- SAM number
- RD082
- Cadw record number
- 1935
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 Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of an earthen built round barrow, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The Ty-Lettice Round Barrow is located on a ridge overlooking a valley bottom to the north. It is slightly oval in shape on plan and has a rounded profile, measuring c.23m north-south by c.20m, and standing c.3m high. Along the north-east side four edge-set stones varying from c.0.4 to c.0.8m in width are visible, forming a low discontinuous kerb over a total distance of c.5m; a further stone, not edge-set, is visible on the south-west side.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Ty Lettice Roman roadRoadunder 1 mi
- Round Barrow NE of Cefn-Ceido HallRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Milestone on A44No class recordedunder 1 mi
- Cefn Ceido FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.