Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Nant Cletwr barrow
Rhayader, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Rhayader, Powys, recorded as Round Barrow (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 26 January 2004
- Community
- Rhayader
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.30542, -3.65651
- SAM number
- RD215
- Cadw record number
- 1079
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 179 Rhyader (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1903 · Philips' clear print half inch map of the Lake District (Princeton University Library)
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 fine round barrow, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated on a terrace within open moorland on the N-facing slopes of Tumau, above and to the S of Nant Cletwr. The grass-covered barrow is circular on plan and measures about 15m in diameter and up to 1m in height. It is undisturbed, apart from a slight hollow in its summit. The barrow commands fine views to the E.
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 traces of a buried prehistoric land surface underneath.
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 20m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Esgair Beddau cairnsRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Craig Coch Dam & Valve TowerWater Supply and Drainage1 mi
- Cefn Troedrhiw-drain cistCist burial2 mi
- Penygarreg Dam & Valve TowerWater Supply and Drainage3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.