Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lane Farm Round Barrow
Painscastle, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 23 June 1989
- Community
- Painscastle
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.11766, -3.19800
- SAM number
- RD144
- Cadw record number
- 2614
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 Lane Farm barrow is slightly oval in shape on plan, measuring c.16m south-west to north-east by c.13m, and has a slightly irregular rounded profile rising to a height of c.1.1m.
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
- Rhosgoch MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Hermon Congregational ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Wern-Fawr FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn Range at the Great HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.