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Domen Fawr Round Barrows is a prehistoric round barrow located in Wales and protected by Cadw under the reference GM189. The monument belongs to a class of burial mounds built across Britain and Wales during the Bronze Age, typically dating from around 2000 to 1500 BC. These structures served as communal or individual burial chambers, often marking significant individuals within their communities and remaining as prominent landscape features for millennia thereafter.
The barrow is situated on Lias Group bedrock, a geological formation of mudstone, siltstone, limestone and sandstone laid down during the Aalenian period of the Jurassic. This underlying geology would have shaped both the construction of the mound and its subsequent preservation, influencing drainage patterns and soil composition across the site. The locally available stone types would have been incorporated into the monument's structure where required.
Round barrows of this type were typically constructed as earthen mounds, sometimes faced or interspersed with stone. The inclusion of burials within the mound, along with grave goods reflecting the status and beliefs of the Bronze Age population, makes such monuments important archaeological records. The survival of Domen Fawr as a protected monument allows ongoing study of prehistoric Welsh burial practices and social organisation.
Domen Fawr Round Barrows is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference GM189. View the official record →
Domen Fawr Round Barrows is a prehistoric round barrow located in Wales and protected by Cadw under the reference GM189.
Domen Fawr 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.
Domen Fawr 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 GM189.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including West Orchard Manor House (3.7 km), Castle Ditches Camp (4.4 km), Deserted Medieval Village North East of Rock Farm (4.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Domen Fawr 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.
Domen Fawr Round Barrows stands on Lias Group, bedrock that formed in the Aalenian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, limestone and sandstone.