Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Three Round Barrows NW of Fiddler's Green Farm
Llanbadarn Fynydd, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Llanbadarn Fynydd
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.42987, -3.30733
- SAM number
- RD084
- Cadw record number
- 2592
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 three earthen built round barrows which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). Barrow A is to the north-west and measures c.6m in diameter and c.1.8m high. Barrow B measures c.18m in diameter and 1.8m high and Barrow C measures c.22.5m in diameter and c.1.35m high. Part of Barrow B is now included in the road verge.
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
- Blaen-nant-du, including attached farm rangesNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Banc Gorddwr, round barrow on S side ofRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Banc Gorddwr, round barrow on NW side ofRound Barrow1 mi
- Round Barrow S of Ciderhouse WoodRound Barrow1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.