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Cader Bronwen Round Barrow is a Bronze Age round barrow cairn located in Wales and protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw under reference DE060. The monument comprises a mounded earthwork constructed over bedrock of Caradoc Rocks, an Ordovician formation of mudstone, siltstone and sandstone laid down during the Caradocian period. This geological foundation would have presented Bronze Age communities with accessible stone suitable for cairn construction, making the site a practical choice for burial.
Round barrows such as Cader Bronwen are characteristic monuments of the Bronze Age, typically serving as funerary structures for individual burials or cremations, often accompanied by grave goods. The cairn form—built from stone rather than earth alone—reflects local geology and building traditions. The Caradoc bedrock underlying the site would have provided ready supplies of stone, enabling communities to construct a durable monument that has survived millennia of weathering on upland terrain.
The barrow stands as evidence of Bronze Age settlement patterns and burial practice in Wales. Such monuments frequently occupy prominent positions in the landscape, visible from considerable distances. Cader Bronwen's location on Caradocian bedrock contributes to understanding how Bronze Age communities organised their burial grounds in relation to both topography and geological resources available to them.
Cader Bronwen Round Barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference DE060. View the official record →
Cader Bronwen Round Barrow is a Bronze Age round barrow cairn located in Wales and protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw under reference DE060.
Cader Bronwen Round Barrow dates from the bronze age period, and is classified as a round barrow cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Cader Bronwen 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 DE060.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cwm Rhiwiau Stone Circle (4.5 km), Rhos-y-Beddau Stone Circle, Avenue and Cairn (4.8 km), Afon Disgynfa Cairn (5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Cader Bronwen 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.
Cader Bronwen Round Barrow stands on Caradoc Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Caradocian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.