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Criafol Round Barrow is a prehistoric burial mound located in Wales and protected by Cadw as a scheduled monument. Round barrows of this type typically date to the Bronze Age and served as communal or individual burial places, often constructed with earth and stone quarried from the surrounding landscape. The monument sits upon Wenlock Rocks, a geological foundation of mudstone, siltstone and sandstone formed during the Silurian period, which would have been readily available for the barrow's construction and for stone cairn elements common to monuments of this age and region.
The barrow's preservation reflects its significance within the prehistoric burial landscape of Wales. The underlying Wenlock geology, characteristic of upland areas across the country, would have provided both practical building materials and likely influenced settlement patterns in antiquity. Such monuments frequently stood as prominent landscape features marking territorial boundaries and ancestral connections for Bronze Age communities.
Today, Criafol Round Barrow remains an important archaeological resource, its protected status ensuring the preservation of potential subsurface evidence relating to prehistoric burial practices and material culture in Wales.
Criafol Round Barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference FL170. View the official record →
Criafol Round Barrow is a prehistoric burial mound located in Wales and protected by Cadw as a scheduled monument. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference FL170.
Criafol 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.
Criafol 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 FL170.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round Barrow 135m SE of Lodge Farm (4.3 km), Moel y Gaer (5.3 km), Bron Fadog Enclosure (6.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Criafol 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.
Criafol Round Barrow stands on Wenlock Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.