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Crugiau Edryd Round Barrows is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wales, protected as a scheduled ancient monument under Cadw reference CM073. The site comprises earthworks typical of round barrows, the dominant burial form across Britain during the second millennium BC. These monuments served as communal or individual burial places and often marked significant positions in the contemporary landscape.
The barrows sit upon Llandovery Rocks, an undifferentiated sequence of Ordovician sandstone and conglomerate strata. This mixed geology, where hard conglomerate bands alternate with more friable sandstone, would have presented practical challenges for the monument's builders when raising the burial mounds and excavating any associated ditches. The locally available stone and subsoil informed both the form and construction materials of these Bronze Age structures.
The monument's survival to the present day reflects its protected status under Cadw, Wales's historic monuments organisation. Round barrows remain valuable archaeological records of prehistoric burial practice, social organisation and land use. Their earthwork form and archaeological context, including relationships to the contemporary environment visible in the geology beneath, continue to provide evidence for understanding Bronze Age communities in Wales.
Crugiau Edryd Round Barrows is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CM073. View the official record →
Crugiau Edryd Round Barrows is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wales, protected as a scheduled ancient monument under Cadw reference CM073.
Crugiau Edryd 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.
Crugiau Edryd 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 CM073.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ring Cairn 50m North of Crug y Biswal (1.8 km), Crug y Biswal Round Barrow (1.9 km), Pant-Teg Standing Stone (2.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Crugiau Edryd 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.
Crugiau Edryd Round Barrows stands on Llandovery Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Llandovery. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.