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Round Barrow Cemetery, Llanthony

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 01755g
Trust : Glamorgan Gwent
Community : Crucorney
Unitary authority : Monmouthshire
NGR : SO28032554
Site Type (preferred type first) : Bronze Age Round barrow cemetery

Summary :
Part of barrow cemetery 8441g. In 1957 OS fieldworkers described a heather covered cairn with a modern stone turret built on its top; the present visit describes much the same. The feature is a large elevated circular cairn which has been highly disturbe

Description :
Part of barrow cemetery 8441g. In 1957 OS fieldworkers described a heather covered cairn with a modern stone turret built on its top; the present visit describes much the same. The feature is a large elevated circular cairn which has been highly disturbed. There is a sheepfold or shelter located in the S area of the cairn and a comparatively modern circular tower dominates the centre. To the NW is a possible robbed out rectangular cist (1.5m x 1.6m). The cairn has a regularly defined perimeter although no ditch or kerbstones are evident. The cairn's sides are steeply sloping, quite short and covered by heather. It is composed of stone. 50m to the N on the E edge of the public footpath is another cairn, 1754g; these two cairns are most probably associated and are considered as a pair.

Dimensions: diameter 27.5m; height 1.4-2.0m
(1957) A large, partly heather covered cairn with a diameter of 27m and a height of 2m in the W. A small circular dry-stone turret has been built on its top. At SO 28062561 is a heather covered mound in which no stones are exposed through its uneven surface probably results from a stone content. It has a diameter of 12m and a height of 0.8m. (Source 02)
GGAT 72 Prehistoric Funerary and Ritual Sites Project 2003

Sources :
02/MM Record Card/OS/1957/SO 22 NE
01/PM List/Lillie MC/1991/Bronze Age Gwent (University of Nottingham dissertation) p57
03/PM List/1974/County Treasures: Abergavenny
04/PM List/NCC/1980/Stat Sites Nat Park 1949/Gwent pp6,9,map
Pm desc text/Evans EM/2003/GGAT 72 Prehistoric Funerary and Ritual Sites Project

Events :

Related records
GGAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 01754g
GGAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 08441g

Compiled date : 02-12-1988


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