Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Carn y Groes cairn
Rhayader, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 20 January 2004
- Community
- Rhayader
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.37465, -3.64555
- SAM number
- RD208
- Cadw record number
- 4089
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 burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within enclosed moorland on the summit of the ridge at the head of Nant y Derrol. The grass-covered stone built cairn is circular on plan and measures about 9.5m in diameter and up to 0.7m in height. A large modern cairn has been raised on its SE side.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual. 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 and environmental and structural evidence, including a buried prehistoric land surface.
The area scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular and measures 25m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Cistfaen barrowsRound Barrow1 mi
- Cistfaen cairnsRound Cairn1 mi
- Maen Hir cairn cemeteryCairn Cemetery1 mi
- Craig y Lluest cairn cemeteryRound Cairn2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.