Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Black Mixen round barrow
New Radnor, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in New Radnor, Powys, recorded as Round Barrow (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 30 December 2005
- Community
- New Radnor
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.27183, -3.17897
- SAM number
- RD257
- Cadw record number
- 4233
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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 · 180 Knighton (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 substantial round barrow, a burial mound probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated in enclosed rough moorland on the Black Mixen ridge on Radnor Forest. The grass and heather-covered barrow is circular on plan and measures about 22m in diameter and up to 1.3m in height. Although the summit of the monument has been disturbed, boasting an Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar, the base of the round barrow appears to be undisturbed.
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 likely association with the extensive Bronze Age barrow cemetery situated to the SE, on Bache Hill and Whimble (Scheduled Ancient Monuments RD189, RD190 and RD191) and the probable platform cairn situated immediately to the NW (Scheduled Ancient Monument RD256), further increases its importance.
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 35m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Black Mixen, round barrow to NW ofRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Bronze Age Round Barrows on Whinyard RocksRound Barrow1 mi
- The Whimble BarrowRound Barrow1 mi
- Red Hill Bronze Age BarrowsRound Barrow1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.