Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cilberllan ring cairn
Glascwm, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Ring Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 16 March 2005
- Community
- Glascwm
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.18005, -3.34505
- SAM number
- RD226
- Cadw record number
- 4131
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 ring cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within open moorland on a SE-facing terrace below the summit of the hill on the E side of the Carneddau. The well-preserved ring cairn is circular on plan and measures about 15m in diameter over a substantial stony ring bank spread to about 3m in thickness and up to 0.6m in height.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual. The monument is well preserved and is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence.
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 32m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Cwm-berwyn round cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- The Gaer hillfortHillfortunder 1 mi
- Bryntwppa stone rowStone Rowunder 1 mi
- Cwm Berwyn CampHillfortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.