Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Blaenhenllan round cairn
Painscastle, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 17 September 2004
- Community
- Painscastle
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.10171, -3.30986
- SAM number
- RD217
- Cadw record number
- 4126
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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 on a prominent local knoll in an enclosed field of improved pasture. The cairn is circular on plan and measures about 9m in diameter and up to 1m in height. Long edge-set slabs form a partial kerb and there is a cist visible in the S side of the cairn. This cist measures 1.2m from NE to SW by 0.7m transversely within three edge-set slabs (that to the NE is not visible).
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 20m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
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- Church to St TeiloReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Twyn y Garth Round BarrowsRound Barrow1 mi
- Twyn y Garth GunCommemorative1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.