Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gilwern Hill round cairn
Glascwm, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 8 March 2006
- Community
- Glascwm
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.21908, -3.32905
- SAM number
- RD239
- Cadw record number
- 1086
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 burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated in enclosed pasture on a knoll on the leading edge of the SW end of a locally prominent SE-facing ridge on Gilwern Hill. The cairn is circular on plan and measures about 13.5m in diameter and between 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, 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 16m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Gelli Hill Stone CircleStone Circleunder 1 mi
- Gilwern Hill, round cairn on NE ofRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Gelli Hill Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Pawl Hir Ring CairnRing Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.