PE390

Pengawse Ring Cairn  

 

Designated  

Pembrokeshire  

Llanddewi Velfrey  

217199  

217201  

Religious, Ritual and Funerary  

Ring Barrow  

Prehistoric  

The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument. The monument comprises the remains of a ring cairn, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC) and which survives as a. crop mark indicating the surrounding ditch measuring c 20m in diameter and 2m wide. The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The feature is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retains significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Ring cairns may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value. The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.