Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cefn Wylfre Stone Circle and Round Barrow
Glascwm, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Glascwm, Powys, recorded as Stone Circle (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Stone Circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 1 June 2000
- Community
- Glascwm
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.15111, -3.25829
- SAM number
- RD177
- Cadw record number
- 1619
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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 · 197 Hay (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 of a stone circle, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). Cefn Wylfre stone circle consists of 12 stones, 11 shale slabs and 1 glacial erratic which form an ovoid ring 22m by 20m in size. The stones are set low in the ground, their tips mostly no higher than 0.2m above the surface. Within the circle is a round barrow 7.5m in diameter and 0.3m high. This is surrounded by a shallow ditch up to 1.5m wide.
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. Stone circles are often 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. It is a circle and measures 30m in diameter, centred on the stone circle.
Nearby in the register
- Cefn Wylfre Platform HousePlatform houseunder 1 mi
- Cefn Wylfre Deserted Rural SettlementHouse Platformunder 1 mi
- Cefn Wylfre Round BarrowsRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Cwm-BerllanDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.