CPAT100985

CPAT Regional Historic Environment Record
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Tomen Garmon mound

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 100985
Trust : Clwyd Powys
Community : Ceiriog Ucha
Unitary authority : Wrexham
NGR : SJ1579532816
Site Type (preferred type first) : MEDIEVAL PREACHING MOUND / EARLY MEDIEVAL BURIAL / BRONZE AGE ROUND BARROW / MEDIEVAL MOTTE
Status : scheduled monument

Summary :
Irregular mound 2. 4m high in Llanarmon churchyard thought to be preaching mound. Another possibility is that is is the burial location of St Garmon.

Description :
Irregular mound 2. 4m high in Llanarmon churchyard thought to be preaching mound (S D170).

Slightly oval mound 20 x 18 paces. On top in the centre stands a fairly large stone said to have had a sundial (Davies 1929, 161).

Possible burial mound of St Garmon. Samuel Lewis in 1854 states 'within the cemetery, is a large circular tumulus, which is said to be the sepulchre of Germanus, the celebrated Bishop of Auxerre ' (Lewis, 1854; Bord, 2023).

Sources :
Bord, J. , 2023 , Saints' Graves of Denbighshire , Denbighshire Historical Society Transactions : 71 : 15-42
Cadw , 1995 , Cadw Field Monument Wardens Report - De170(WRE)
Cadw , 2003 , Cadw Field Monument Wardens Report - De170(WRE)
Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust , 2003 , CPAT Project Archive - 930
Davies, E., 1929 , The Prehistoric and Roman remains of Denbighshire (

© Davies, E)
Lewis, Samuel , 1854 , A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
Ordnance Survey , 1974 , OS record card SJ 13 SE 2
Silvester, B & Hankinson, R , 2002 , Early Medieval Ecclesiastical and Burial Sites in Mid and North-east Wales: An Interim Report (

© Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust)
Silvester, B & Hankinson, R , 2003 , Early Medieval Ecclesiastical and Burial Sites in Mid and North-east Wales: The Second Report (

© Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust)
Silvester, R J , 2004 , Early Medieval Ecclesiastical and Burial Sites in Mid and North-East Wales. The Field Assessment and its Impact on the Overall Study (

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March 29, 2025, 2:00 am - File produced for Archwilio from CPAT's Regional HER.
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