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Moelfre Round Barrows is a prehistoric round barrow located in Wales and protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw under reference CM107. The barrow sits upon bedrock comprising Ashgill Rocks, a Silurian-period formation of mudstone, siltstone and sandstone that would have been exposed or thinly covered during the Bronze Age when the monument was constructed. This geological substrate, common in upland Wales, provided the local stone used in barrow building and would have influenced both the siting and construction technique of the burial mound.
The barrow represents a funerary monument typical of Bronze Age Wales, when communities marked elite or significant burials with substantial earthen or stone-built mounds. Round barrows served not only as graves but as enduring territorial and ancestral markers within the Bronze Age landscape, often positioned prominently on higher ground to command views across surrounding land.
Scheduled protection recognises the barrow's archaeological importance as evidence of Bronze Age settlement, burial practice and social hierarchy in prehistoric Wales. The monument survives as an archaeological record of beliefs, construction methods and landscape use in the Bronze Age period.
Moelfre Round Barrows is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CM107. View the official record →
Moelfre Round Barrows is a prehistoric round barrow located in Wales and protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw under reference CM107.
Moelfre 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.
Moelfre 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 CM107.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Nant-Gronw Round Barrows (5 km), Crug Ieuan Round Barrow (5 km), Garreg Wen Standing Stone (5.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Moelfre 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.
Moelfre Round Barrows stands on Ashgill Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Ashgill. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.