Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Carneddau, cairn on N end of
Glascwm, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 16 March 2005
- Community
- Glascwm
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.18772, -3.36615
- SAM number
- RD221
- Cadw record number
- 4122
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 large burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated in moorland on a terrace on the S-facing side of the hill on the N side of the Carneddau. The stone-built cairn is roughly oval on plan and measures about 13m from NW to SE by 10.5m transversely. The cairn material has been spread a further 2m on its SE side and a rudimentary drystone shelter has been constructed upon its summit. The cairn has been built upon outcropping bedrock and stands up to 1m in height.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual. The well-preserved 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 24m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Carneddau, round cairn on N end ofRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Cwm Berwyn CampHillfortunder 1 mi
- Carneddau, including attached cow houseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Barn and stable at CarneddauNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.