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Crugiau Round Barrows is a prehistoric round cairn located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference CM201. The monument stands on bedrock formed from Ashgill rocks, composed of mudstone, siltstone and sandstone, which would have been readily available to the communities who constructed it. Round cairns of this type were built during the Bronze Age as funerary monuments, their stone mounds serving as durable markers of burial sites across the upland landscape. The underlying geology of this location would have provided suitable material for both the cairn's construction and the surrounding working of the land during prehistory.
Crugiau Round Barrows is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CM201. View the official record →
Crugiau Round Barrows is a prehistoric round cairn located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference CM201.
Crugiau Round Barrows dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a round cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Crugiau 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 CM201.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Llech Ciste Standing Stone (0.9 km), Crug-y-rhud-hir round barrow (3.3 km), Dyffryn Camp (3.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Crugiau 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 Round Barrows stands on Ashgill Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Ashgill. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.