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Fairy Oak Round Barrow is a prehistoric burial mound located in Denbighshire, Wales, dating to the Bronze Age. The monument survives as a circular earthwork and forms part of the wider landscape of funerary monuments characteristic of Bronze Age settlement and ritual practice in north Wales. As a round barrow, it would have functioned as a burial site and focal point for ritual activity, reflecting the significance accorded to the dead within Bronze Age society. The site is protected as a scheduled ancient monument under the Welsh heritage framework.
Fairy Oak Round Barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference DE163. View the official record →
Fairy Oak Round Barrow is a prehistoric burial mound located in Denbighshire, Wales, dating to the Bronze Age. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference DE163.
Fairy Oak 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.
Fairy Oak 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 DE163.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Wat's Dyke: Section extending from Pentre-Clawdd to Wynnstay Park (6 km), Gardden Camp (6 km), Offa's Dyke: Y Gardden Camp Section (6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Fairy Oak 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.
Fairy Oak Round Barrow stands on Warwickshire Group, bedrock that formed in the Early Permian. The rock here is siltstone and sandstone with subordinate mudstone.