Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dol-y-Fan Round Cairn
Llanyre, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llanyre, Powys, recorded as Round Cairn (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Llanyre
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.24160, -3.43747
- SAM number
- RD125
- Cadw record number
- 2607
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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 Monument.
The monument comprises the remains a burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The cairn is situated on a hilltop in a slight saddle with good views to the north and south. The original remains are c.10m in diameter and up to 0.4m high, though varying amounts of clearance stone have been added above this and removed again over the last century.
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 intact burial or ritual deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Cairns 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
- Gelligarn FarmhouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Barn & attached farm buildings at Gelligarn FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- The Green, including attached former sawmill and farm buildingsNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- The HolmesNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.