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Hen-y-Fail Round Barrow is a prehistoric funerary monument located in Flintshire, Wales, designated as a scheduled ancient monument under the Cadw reference FL168. The barrow dates to the Bronze Age and represents a significant example of the ritual burial practices characteristic of that period in North Wales. As a round barrow, it would originally have comprised an earthen mound constructed over one or more burials, serving both as a place of interment and as a prominent territorial marker in the Bronze Age landscape. The monument survives as a substantial earthwork and continues to provide archaeological evidence of prehistoric funerary customs and social organisation in the region.
Hen-y-Fail Round Barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference FL168. View the official record →
Hen-y-Fail Round Barrow is a prehistoric funerary monument located in Flintshire, Wales, designated as a scheduled ancient monument under the Cadw reference FL168. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference FL168.
Hen-y-Fail 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 Britain.
Hen-y-Fail 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 FL168.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ministry of Supply Valley Site (4 km), Plas-Yw Round Barrows (4.3 km), Wat's Dyke: Section SE of Clawdd Offa (5.4 km).
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