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Cefn Wylfre Round Barrows is a prehistoric round barrow situated in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference RD178. The monument occupies ground underlain by Ludlow Rocks, an undifferentiated sequence of mudstone, siltstone and sandstone deposits formed during the Ludlow period of the Silurian. These fine-grained sedimentary rocks would have presented a moderately stable base for the earthwork's construction, though their weathered surfaces would have offered readily available stone for building materials had the barrow builders required them.
Round barrows of this type typically date to the Bronze Age, representing the burial monuments of local communities who valued these conspicuous landscape markers. The Ludlow bedrock's relatively soft composition means that any excavation or ground disturbance since the barrow's construction would have been straightforward work. The monument's survival to the present day reflects both the durability of its earthwork form and the protection it has received in more recent centuries.
The barrow's location on Ludlow-derived geology is characteristic of many Welsh prehistoric monuments, which often occupy the more fertile and accessible terrain of lower-lying districts. Its protected status recognises the significance of round barrows as archaeological evidence for Bronze Age settlement, burial practice and territorial organisation across the Welsh landscape.
Cefn Wylfre Round Barrows is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference RD178. View the official record →
Cefn Wylfre Round Barrows is a prehistoric round barrow situated in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference RD178.
Cefn Wylfre Round Barrows 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.
Cefn Wylfre Round Barrows 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 RD178.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Pain's Castle (5.3 km), Begwns standing stone (6.1 km), Begwns round cairn (6.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Cefn Wylfre Round Barrows'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.
Cefn Wylfre Round Barrows stands on Ludlow Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Ludlow. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.