Scheduled Monuments- Full Report
Summary Description of a Scheduled Monument
Reference Number
GM565
Name
Tarren y Bwlch round cairn
Date of Designation
17/11/2003
Status
Designated
Location
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Community
Hirwaun
Easting
294812
Northing
203394
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Site Type
Round Cairn
Period
Prehistoric
Description
Summary Description and Reason for Designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a round cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC). It is situated within open moorland on the crest of a north-north-west facing escarpment on Mynydd Bwllfa. The grass-covered cairn is circular on plan and measures 9m in diameter and up to 1.3m in height. There is substantial reed-filled hollow in the centre of the cairn, measuring about 2m in diameter and 0.4m in depth, which is presumably the result of antiquarian investigation.
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 intact secondary burial and 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.