Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Maesgwyn round barrow
Glasbury, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Glasbury, Powys, recorded as Round Barrow (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 22 September 2004
- Community
- Glasbury
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.08398, -3.22175
- SAM number
- RD246
- Cadw record number
- 4142
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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)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (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 open moorland on the S-facing slopes of the Begwns. The grass-covered barrow is circular on plan and measures about 19.5m in diameter and up to 1.6m in height. There is a large central crater and an associated spoil heap situated on its SW side.
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 of the presence of both 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 26m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Bailey Bedw Ring CairnRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Fedw-lydan farmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Begwns round cairnRound Cairn1 mi
- Begwns standing stoneStanding Stone1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.