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Groesffordd round barrows is a prehistoric round barrow located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference FL199. The monument sits upon Dinantian rocks, limestone formations interspersed with sandstone and argillaceous layers that date to the Mississippian period. This underlying geology of pale limestone with darker shale bands would have been familiar to the Bronze Age communities who constructed the barrow, available locally for stone tools and clearing the ground.
Round barrows were the dominant burial monuments of the Bronze Age in Britain and Wales, typically constructed between 2200 and 1500 BC. These earthen mounds served as communal or individual graves, often containing crouched inhumations accompanied by pottery, metalwork and other grave goods. The construction method involved heaping soil and stone over a central burial pit, sometimes with a ring ditch surrounding the base.
The Groesffordd barrows exemplify the Bronze Age burial practices across the Welsh landscape. Their survival to the present day, despite millennia of cultivation and land use, reflects their substantial original construction. The limestone bedrock beneath the site would have shaped both the practical challenges and possibilities of monument building, influencing the availability of materials and the ease with which the ground could be worked.
Groesffordd round barrows is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference FL199. View the official record →
Groesffordd round barrows is a prehistoric round barrow located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference FL199.
Groesffordd 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.
Groesffordd 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 FL199.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round Barrow 450m SSW of Llynfanod (5 km), Bron Fadog Enclosure (5.6 km), Round Barrow 135m SE of Lodge Farm (6.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Groesffordd 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.
Groesffordd round barrows stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.