GARN GOCH

Site Details

NPRN
306245
Map Reference
SO21NW
Grid Reference
SO21221770
Unitary (Local) Authority
Powys
Old County
Brecknockshire
Community
Llangattock
Type of Site
CAIRN
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
Bronze Age?;Roman

Site Description

Garn Goch is a ruined cairn, 19m in diameter and 1.7m high. A protruding stone slab may relate to a cist opened in 1854, revealing a single inhumanation, also late Roman coins.

(source Os495card; SO21NW6)

J.Wiles 30.08.02

Standard source: Briggs, C.S., 1997, An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Brecknock (Brycheiniog), The Prehistoric and Roman Monuments, Part i: Later Prehistoric Monuments and Unenclosed Settlements to 1000 A.D. RCAHMW. pp 54-56.

T. Driver, 19 June 2007.