Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Banc Gorddwr, round barrow on S side of
Beguildy, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Beguildy, Powys, recorded as Round Barrow (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 20 December 2005
- Community
- Beguildy
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.43773, -3.30795
- SAM number
- RD251
- Cadw record number
- 4215
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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)
- 1899 · 165 Montgomery (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 NW side of Banc Gorddwr. The grass-covered barrow is circular on plan and measures about 20m in diameter and up to about 0.9m in height. The surface of the barrow is hollowed and pitted, probably the result of robbing in the past. However, the majority of the base of the barrow remains well-defined and intact.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. 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 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 28m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Banc Gorddwr, round barrow on NW side ofRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Three Round Barrows NW of Fiddler's Green FarmRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Blaen-nant-du, including attached farm rangesNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Round Barrow S of Ciderhouse WoodRound Barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.