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Cil Haul Barrow is a prehistoric round barrow located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference MG274. The monument sits upon bedrock composed of Caradoc Rocks, a formation of mudstone, siltstone and sandstone created during the Caradocian period. These sedimentary deposits, which underlie much of mid-Wales, would have been familiar ground to the Bronze Age communities who built burial mounds across this landscape.
Round barrows served as enduring monuments to the dead, typically constructed over a single inhumation or cremation and surrounded by ditches that provided material for the earthwork itself. The barrow's location on Caradocian bedrock in Wales places it within a wider tradition of Bronze Age funerary practice that extended across Britain, where such mounds functioned as territorial markers and focal points for ancestor veneration.
Today, Cil Haul Barrow remains a surviving record of prehistoric settlement and burial custom in Wales. Its protection reflects the archaeological significance of such monuments for understanding the ritual and social organisation of Bronze Age communities. The barrow's survival on this exposed, rocky terrain testifies to the durability of these ancient earthworks across thousands of years.
Cil Haul Barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference MG274. View the official record →
Cil Haul Barrow is a prehistoric round barrow located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference MG274.
Cil Haul 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.
Cil Haul 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 MG274.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Clawdd Mawr (0.4 km), Croes y Forwyn cairns (4.3 km), Tomen y Cefnlloer (5.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Cil Haul 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.
Cil Haul Barrow stands on Caradoc Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Caradocian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.