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Wenallt Round Barrow

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NPRN300083
Map ReferenceST29SE
Grid ReferenceST2563090560
Unitary (Local) AuthorityCaerphilly
Old CountyMonmouthshire
CommunityRisca
Type Of SiteROUND BARROW
PeriodBronze Age
Description
NAR ST29SE22

Located close to the crest of a hill on ground falling away gently to the SW, the stony mound, overgrown with grasses and bracken, measures 12.5m (NW-SE) by 11.7m with a height of 1.3m on the S downhill side (0.3m on the N).
A recently built housing estate lies close by to the SW.

visited D.K.Leighton & B.A.Malaws 23 August 1989


The mound is more overgrown than it was ten years previously and appears to have spread. It now a stony mound measuring 14m (NE-SW) by 13m with a height of 0.75m on the NE and 0.4m on the SW. A small boulder lies atop the mound, off-centre to the NE. In addition to bracken and grasses the mound now supports an oak sapling.

visited D.K.Leighton 7 December 1999


RCAHMW AP945081/44-5