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Bedd Taliesin Round Barrow is a prehistoric round cairn located in Ceredigion, Wales, dating to the Bronze Age. The monument consists of a substantial circular mound of stones constructed as a burial monument and ritual site, characteristic of funerary practice during the second millennium BCE. The site bears the name of the legendary medieval Welsh poet Taliesin, reflecting the cultural significance attributed to the location in Welsh tradition, though the actual monument predates any historical association with this figure by many centuries. As a scheduled ancient monument under Cadw protection, Bedd Taliesin represents an important example of Bronze Age ceremonial and funerary architecture in the upland regions of mid-Wales.
Bedd Taliesin Round Barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CD067. View the official record →
Bedd Taliesin Round Barrow is a prehistoric round cairn located in Ceredigion, Wales, dating to the Bronze Age. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CD067.
Bedd Taliesin Round Barrow dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a round cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Bedd Taliesin Round Barrow is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is CD067.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Standing Stones c.600m NE of Cwmdarren (7.7 km), Bronfloyd Leadmine (7.9 km), Cwmsymlog Lead Mine (8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Bedd Taliesin Round Barrow's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Bedd Taliesin Round Barrow stands on Llandovery Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Llandovery. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.