PE197

Crugiau Cemmaes Round Barrows  

01/08/1950  

Designated  

Pembrokeshire  

Nevern  

212543  

241624  

Religious, Ritual and Funerary  

Round Barrow  

Prehistoric  

The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument. The monument comprises the remains of four earthen built round barrows, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The southernmost barrow measures c 21m in diameter by c 3m high, the southern c 21m in diameter by c 3m high, the northern has an unknown diameter and a maximum height of 2.5m where it survives under a hedgebank, and the northernmost is c 20mm in diameter and c 0.2m high. The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The features are an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retain significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Barrows 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.