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Bwlch-Bychan Round Barrow is a prehistoric burial mound situated in Wales and protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw. The barrow represents a form of monumental funerary architecture typical of the Bronze Age, when such earthen mounds served as focal points for burial rites and community commemoration across Britain and Ireland.
The monument stands upon bedrock composed of Llandovery rocks—undifferentiated mudstone, siltstone and sandstone laid down during the Silurian period. This geology would have presented ancient builders with accessible stone suitable for internal structures, though the mound itself would have relied principally on soil and turf quarried from the surrounding landscape.
Protected under Cadw reference CM119, Bwlch-Bychan remains an important element of Wales's prehistoric heritage. Its survival reflects the value placed on such monuments through modern heritage guardianship, enabling continued study of burial practices and landscape use in prehistoric Wales. The site's preservation contributes to our understanding of how communities of the Bronze Age organised their dead and marked their territories across the Welsh uplands.
Bwlch-Bychan Round Barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CM119. View the official record →
Bwlch-Bychan Round Barrow is a prehistoric burial mound situated in Wales and protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CM119.
Bwlch-Bychan Round Barrow dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a round barrow. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Bwlch-Bychan 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 CM119.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Roman Amphitheatre (7.2 km), St John's Priory (7.3 km), Carmarthen Roman Town (part of) (7.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Bwlch-Bychan 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.
Bwlch-Bychan Round Barrow stands on Llandovery Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Llandovery. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.