Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Carneddau round cairns
Glascwm, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 25 October 2004
- Community
- Glascwm
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.18095, -3.37184
- SAM number
- RD235
- Cadw record number
- 4134
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 two burial cairns, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated in enclosed moorland on the central summit of the Carneddau Hill. The southernmost cairn (Item A: SO 0629 5450) measures about 10.5m in diameter and up to 0.9m in height. The northernmost cairn (Item B: SO 0630 5454) measures about 8m in diameter and up to 0.5m in height.
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 the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence, including buried prehistoric land surfaces.
The area scheduled comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. Area A (SO 0629 5450) is circular and measures 26m in diameter. Area B (SO 0630 5454) is circular and measures 24m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Carneddau Round CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Carneddau, cairn on N end ofRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Carneddau, round cairn on N end ofRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Cwm Berwyn CampHillfortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.