Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bryn y Maen Round Barrow
New Radnor, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- New Radnor
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.20351, -3.23544
- SAM number
- RD109
- Cadw record number
- 1951
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 an earthen built round barrow, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). It stands on a plateau to the north-east of the Bryn y Maen stone alignment. The barrow is circular in shape on plan and has a rounded profile, is c.22m in diameter and c.2m high.
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
- Bryn y Maen Alignment (Four Stones)Stone Alignmentunder 1 mi
- Milestone in Road Verge about 500m SW of LlanwennyTransportunder 1 mi
- Llannerch cup-marked rockCup Marked Stone1 mi
- The Fedw Stone Circle 360m W of Llanboidy WoodStone Circle1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.