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Lane Farm Round Barrow is a prehistoric round barrow located in Wales and protected as a scheduled monument under Cadw reference RD144. The monument sits upon bedrock composed of Ludlow Rocks, a geological formation of the Ludlow series characterised by mudstone, siltstone and sandstone. This stable substrate of mixed sedimentary rocks would have provided a suitable foundation for the barrow's construction during the Bronze Age, when such earthen mounds were raised across the Welsh landscape as burial monuments.
Round barrows typically comprised a central burial chamber or grave cut into the natural ground surface, covered by an earthen or stone mound. The Ludlow bedrock underlying Lane Farm would have required careful excavation by prehistoric communities, who possessed well-established techniques for working through compacted sedimentary layers to achieve their burial purposes. The durability of the underlying geology has helped preserve the barrow's structure across millennia.
As a scheduled monument, Lane Farm Round Barrow remains an important archaeological resource, contributing to our understanding of Bronze Age funerary practices and settlement patterns in Wales. The monument's survival in the landscape and its official protection ensure its preservation for future study and as a testament to the prehistoric societies that invested considerable labour in constructing these permanent memorials to their dead.
Lane Farm Round Barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference RD144. View the official record →
Lane Farm Round Barrow is a prehistoric round barrow located in Wales and protected as a scheduled monument under Cadw reference RD144.
Lane Farm 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.
Lane Farm 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 RD144.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Glasbury Old Church (8.4 km), Coed y Polyn round barrow (8.9 km), Little Lodge Long Barrow (9.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Lane Farm 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.
Lane Farm Round Barrow stands on Ludlow Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Ludlow. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.