BR326

Bedd Gwyl Illtyd round cairn  

07/11/2005  

Designated  

Powys  

Glyn Tarell  

297396  

226390  

Religious, Ritual and Funerary  

Round Cairn  

Prehistoric  

The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument. The monument comprises the remains of a burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated in enclosed moorland on the ridge extending to the SW of Mynydd Illtud. The grass and bracken covered cairn is roughly circular on plan and measures about 13.5m in diameter and up to 0.6m in height. The cairn is defined by a partial bank surrounding a large central hollow. Although substantially disturbed, the base of the cairn remains intact. 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 and environmental and structural evidence. The scheduled area comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular and measures 16m in diameter.