Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Shepherd's Tump round barrow
Llanfihangel Rhydithon, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 21 October 2005
- Community
- Llanfihangel Rhydithon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.28021, -3.23990
- SAM number
- RD253
- Cadw record number
- 4231
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 round barrow, a burial mound probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated in enclosed pasture on a prominent knoll on the northernmost summit of the ridge on the NW side of Radnor Forest. The grass-covered round barrow is circular on plan and measures about 19m in diameter and up to 1.5m in height. The barrow appears to be largely undisturbed and has a well-defined rounded profile. It boasts spectacular views in all directions.
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
- Outbuilding range immediately SE of Lower CwmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Lower CwmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn/Cowhouse Range to CraffrynAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding immediately to SW of CraffrynDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.