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Latitude: 51.6087 / 51°36'31"N
Longitude: -4.269 / 4°16'8"W
OS Eastings: 242977
OS Northings: 192419
OS Grid: SS429924
Mapcode National: GBR GQ.KJ11
Mapcode Global: VH3MN.YTHP
Entry Name: Llanmadoc Hill, cairn on W end of
Scheduled Date: 16 March 2004
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 4055
Cadw Legacy ID: GM578
Schedule Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Category: Round cairn
Period: Prehistoric
County: Swansea (Abertawe)
Community: Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton (Llangynydd, Llanmadog a Cheriton)
Traditional County: Glamorgan
The monument comprises the remains of a large burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within open moorland on the summit of the ridge of Llanmadoc Hill. The stone built cairn is circular on plan and measures about 17.5m in diameter and up to 0.2m in height. The cairn has been disturbed in the past, with the addition of a walker's cairn; it now comprises a grass and heather covered stony circular platform. It may indeed have originally been a platform cairn (see nearby Rhossili Down round cairns, SAM GM194).
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual. The monument is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability the presence of both intact 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.
Source: Cadw
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