BR296

Ffynnon Las Bronze Age Ritual Complex  

16/07/2002  

Designated  

Powys  

Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine  

315854  

223192  

Religious, Ritual and Funerary  

Round Cairn  

Prehistoric  

The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument. The monument comprises the remains two burial cairns and a standing stone probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC) and aligned north-west to south-east along the eastern slope of Cefn Moel above Ffynnon Las. The cairns are turf-covered and measure 8m in diameter x 1m high (Cairn II) and 7m in diameter x 0.5m high (Cairn III). The standing stone measures 0.9m high x 1.1m long x 0.4m wide. The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. 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 burial or ritual deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. 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. It is in three parts, with a circle 10m in diameter, centred on cairn II, a circle 2m in diameter, centred on the standing stone and a circle 10m in diameter, centred on cairn III.