Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)
Brynsiencyn Round Barrow
Also known asRound Barrow East of Brynsiencyn · Round Barrow West of Carn or Garn
DatedEst. 4000–800 BCE
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Overview
Brynsiencyn Round Barrow (Crug Crwn dwyrain Brynsiencyn, also recorded as Round Barrow East of Brynsiencyn and Round Barrow West of Carn or Garn) is a round barrow in the community of Llanidan, Anglesey (Ynys Môn), Wales. It was raised by people of the Neolithic or the Bronze Age, as part of their ceremonies or to bury the dead.
It measures 24 metres by 1.9m at its greatest.
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The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
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Brynsiencyn Round Barrow
DescriptionSources for this section
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The barrow lies at grid reference SH488669, to the west of the Garn. It measures 24 metres by 1.9m at its greatest.
ConservationSources for this section
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The barrow is a scheduled monument, registered by Cadw under the number SAM AN060. It is also listed as a National Monument of Wales.
A round barrow is a hemispherical mound of earth or stone raised over one or more burials.
ContextSources for this section
- Wikipedia (cy): Crug Crwn dwyrain BrynsiencynCC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (cy): Crug Crwn dwyrain BrynsiencynCC BY-SA 4.0
A round barrow is a hemispherical mound of earth or stone raised over one or more burials. In Wales the first round barrows were raised about 3000 BC, and the practice continued to the end of the Bronze Age, about 600 BC, with most built between 2400 - 1500 BC. Nearly 400 round barrows are on Cadw's register, more than any other type of monument.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
British barrows
Round barrows are among the commonest prehistoric monuments in Britain. A round barrow is a hemispherical mound of earth or stone raised over one or more burials, often ringed by a ditch or a bank. In Britain most were built between about 2200 and 1100 BCE, from the Late Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age. Antiquarians sorted them into bowl, bell, saucer and disc forms according to the shape of the mound and the ditch, and the types still appear on archaeological maps. Under the mound there may be a cist, a pit grave, or cremated bone in a pottery vessel; later graves were often cut into older mounds, sometimes thousands of years after the first burial.
Barrows are dated by radiocarbon dating, by pottery and by metalwork. The best-known group lies around Stonehenge. At Bush Barrow, about one kilometre south-west of the stones, William Cunnington opened the mound in 1808 and found a lozenge-shaped sheet of gold, a gold belt plate and three bronze daggers; it belongs to the early Bronze Age Wessex culture of about 1950 BCE, and the Normanton Down cemetery has some forty barrows along one ridge. Round barrows were also built, or reused, later: at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, an Anglo-Saxon ship burial of the sixth to seventh centuries CE lay in a cemetery of mounds.
When visiting, look for the ring of the surrounding ditch, which is often easier to see in low light, for barrows sited on false crests and ridge lines, and for groups strung out along a ridge, as at Normanton Down.
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Dated moments in the story
- 600 CE
Codwyd crugiau crynion yn gyntaf tua 3000 C.C. a pharhaodd yr arfer hyd at ddiwedd Oes yr Efydd (tua 600 C.C.) gyda'r mwyafrif ohonyn nhw'n cael eu codi rhwng 2400 - 1500 C.C.
Source - 2016
Crug Crwn dwyrain Brynsiencyn ar wefan Coflein (Comisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru) Archifwyd 2016-03-04 yn y Peiriant Wayback
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Lore
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What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 4000–800 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for megalithic mounds in United Kingdom; this site has not been dated itself. British barrows of many types were in use from the late Neolithic until the end of the Bronze Age (2900-800 BC); megalithic construction in England is placed at c. 4000 BC.Source for this date
Where it stands
United Kingdom
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- Coordinates
- 53°10′42″ N, 4°15′49″ WFor a GPS or map app: 53.17829, -4.26370
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Perthi-Duon Burial Chamber4000–2400 BCE
Trefwri Standing Stone2800–1800 BCE
Bryn Gwyn stones3200–2500 BCE- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Penygelli, Cairn4000–800 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Clearance Feature N of Bodowyr Cromlech4000–800 BCE
Bodowyr Burial Chamber4000–2500 BCE- Menhir (standing stone)Bryn-Celli-Ddu Standing Stone2800–1800 BCE
Bryn yr Hen Bobl2525–2457 BCE
Sources
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2 sources behind this page
- 01Wikidata Q13127471wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Perthi-Duon Burial Chamber0.9 km W
- Trefwri Standing Stone1.4 km NW
- Bryn Gwyn stones2.6 km W
- Penygelli, Cairn2.8 km SE
- Clearance Feature N of Bodowyr Cromlech2.8 km NW
- Bodowyr Burial Chamber2.8 km W
- Bryn-Celli-Ddu Standing Stone3.6 km NE
- Bryn yr Hen Bobl3.7 km NE
- Tyddyn-Bach Standing Stone3.7 km N
- Site of Cairn South of Bryn Celli Ddu3.7 km NE
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