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Ffostyll Long Barrows is a Neolithic chambered long barrow located in Wales and protected by Cadw as a scheduled monument under reference BR002. The site was constructed during the Neolithic period, when communities across Britain and Ireland raised elaborate communal tombs for their dead. These monuments typically served both as burial chambers and as territorial markers on the landscape, emphasising the permanence and ancestry of farming settlements in the emerging agricultural societies.
The barrow sits upon bedrock formed from Lower Devonian rocks, a foundation of mudstone, siltstone and sandstone laid down during the Early Devonian period. This underlying geology of relatively soft sedimentary stone shaped the immediate landscape available to Neolithic communities, influencing both the local materials they could work with and the water sources that would have sustained them. The undifferentiated nature of these deposits reflects the complex sequences of ancient river and marine environments characteristic of the Devonian period.
As a chambered long barrow, Ffostyll would have contained internal stone-built compartments where the remains of multiple individuals were deposited over an extended period. The distinctive elongated mound form of such monuments, which can exceed 50 metres in length, made them prominent features visible across considerable distances, serving as enduring symbols of lineage and land claim within the early farming communities of Neolithic Wales.
Ffostyll Long Barrows is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference BR002. View the official record →
Ffostyll Long Barrows is a Neolithic chambered long barrow located in Wales and protected by Cadw as a scheduled monument under reference BR002.
Ffostyll Long Barrows dates from the neolithic period, and is classified as a chambered long barrow. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Ffostyll Long 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 BR002.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Mynydd Troed Long Barrow (6.7 km), Enclosure on Cockit Hill (7.4 km), Enclosure West of Sorgwm (7.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Ffostyll Long 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.
Ffostyll Long Barrows stands on Lower Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Early Devonian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.