Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Whimble Barrow
New Radnor, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 23 November 2000
- Community
- New Radnor
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.25617, -3.16590
- SAM number
- RD191
- Cadw record number
- 1692
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 a earthen built round barrow, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC) and is situated in a prominent position on the top of the Whimble. The barrow forms the westernmost of a line of six such prehistoric monuments which extend across the hills forming the northern boundary of the Walton Basin. The barrow measures 9m in diameter and stands to a height of 1.2m, with a flat top.
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. It is a circle and measures 32m in diameter, centred on the barrow.
Nearby in the register
- Bronze Age Round Barrows on Whinyard RocksRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- CrosswayDomesticunder 1 mi
- Red Hill Bronze Age BarrowsRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- FerndaleDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.