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Gilwern Brook round barrow

A Scheduled Monument in New Radnor (Maesyfed), Powys

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.1974 / 52°11'50"N

Longitude: -3.1938 / 3°11'37"W

OS Eastings: 318504

OS Northings: 256132

OS Grid: SO185561

Mapcode National: GBR YY.3NFV

Mapcode Global: VH69X.L1G9

Entry Name: Gilwern Brook round barrow

Scheduled Date: 23 September 2004

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 4139

Cadw Legacy ID: RD242

Schedule Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Category: Round barrow

Period: Prehistoric

County: Powys

Community: New Radnor (Maesyfed)

Traditional County: Radnorshire

Description

The monument comprises the remains of a round barrow, a burial mound probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated in open moorland on a rounded spur above and to the S of a deep river gully. The heather-covered barrow is circular on plan and measures about 20m in diameter and up to 1.5m in height.

The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual. The well-preserved 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 burial or 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. It is circular and measures 35m in diameter.

Source: Cadw

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