Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Castle Bank 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)
- 52.18854, -3.34077
- SAM number
- RD228
- Cadw record number
- 4133
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 level terrace on the SW-facing slopes of Castle Bank ridge. The well-preserved ring cairn is circular on plan and measures about 11m in diameter over a stony ring bank spread to about 2m in thickness and up to 0.3m in height. The interior is level and largely stone free. The ring cairn is situated in a classic location, with wide views all around, except on the NE where it is overlooked by the higher ground of the ridge.
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 22m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- The Gaer hillfortHillfortunder 1 mi
- Castle Bank HillfortHillfortunder 1 mi
- Barn and stable at CarneddauNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Cilberllan ring cairnRing Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.