MAES MYNAN, MOUND

Site Details

NPRN
306940
Map Reference
SJ17SW
Grid Reference
SJ11287211
Unitary (Local) Authority
Flintshire
Old County
Flintshire
Community
Caerwys
Type of Site
ROUND BARROW?
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
Bronze Age

Site Description

A mound, reported to have been c.120 paces in circumference and c.6m high, was investigated in 1868 with no result, and again in 1968/9, prior to gravel-working, when it was rulled to be natural.
A pygmy cup and remains of a cremation were recovered from the spoil-heap of the 1968/9 excavation, indicating either that the mound was a barrow, or that, in an area where barrows and natural landforms are difficult to distinguish, the mound was utilised as a barrow.
The mound was in the past classified and subsequently rejected as, a castle mound.
(source Os495card; SJ17SW31)
J.Wiles 05.11.02