Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hundred House round barrow
Glascwm, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Glascwm, Powys, recorded as Round Barrow (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 9 March 2006
- Community
- Glascwm
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.17979, -3.29861
- SAM number
- RD230
- Cadw record number
- 4132
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 197 Hay (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (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 round barrow, a burial mound probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated in enclosed disturbed pasture on a slight terrace above the confluence of several streams feeding the River Edw and immediately to the S of Hundred House. The grass-covered barrow is circular on plan and measures about 18.5m in diameter and up to 1.8m in height. It was opened in 1875 and a Bronze Age cinerary urn (a pottery vessel used to contain cremated ashes) is recorded as having been found. The grass-grown vestiges of the 19th-century trenches are still visible.
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 further 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 22m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- The Old MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
- The Mount Mound & Bailey Castle, Hundred HouseMotte and Baileyunder 1 mi
- Fforest FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Colwyn CastleMotte and Baileyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.