Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Two Cooking Mounds 350m W of Llwynceubren, Howey
Disserth and Trecoed, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Disserth and Trecoed, Powys, recorded as Burnt Mound (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Burnt Mound
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Disserth and Trecoed
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.22171, -3.37672
- SAM number
- RD141
- Cadw record number
- 732
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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)
- 1899 · 196 Builth (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 consists of the remains of two burnt mounds, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2,300BC - 800BC). A burnt mound is an accumulation of burnt (fire-crazed) stones, ash and charcoal, usually sited next to a river or lake, with hearths and/or some form of trough or basin capable of holding water either within the mound or adjacent to it. These two mounds are situated on flat ground close to a stream. The northern mound is the slighter of the two, measuring c.10.5m north-south by c.7m, and only c.0.25m high; the southern mound, which lies c.5m to the south of the other, is well-defined, c.13m in diameter and c.0.5m high.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric ritual and funerary practices. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. The structure itself may be expected to contain archaeological information concerning chronology and environmental evidence. A burnt mound 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
- Llwyn-Ceubren Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Caer DuEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthwork 100m N of Caer Du, HoweyEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Milestone on A483No class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.