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Morfa House Round Barrow is a prehistoric burial monument located in Wales and protected by Cadw as a scheduled ancient monument under reference GM188. Round barrows of this type were constructed during the Bronze Age as ceremonial burial places, often serving as focal points for ritual and commemoration within Bronze Age communities across Britain and Wales.
The barrow sits upon bedrock of the Lias Group, a sequence of mudstone, siltstone, limestone and sandstone laid down during the Aalenian period of the early Jurassic. This geological foundation would have influenced the construction methods and the materials available to those who built the monument, with the underlying stone potentially informing local practices of burial and landscape use.
As a scheduled monument, Morfa House Round Barrow represents an important survival of Bronze Age ceremonial architecture in Wales. Its protection ensures the preservation of this archaeological record, offering evidence of prehistoric mortuary practices and the social organisation of the communities who built and used such monuments across the Welsh landscape.
Morfa House Round Barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference GM188. View the official record →
Morfa House Round Barrow is a prehistoric burial monument located in Wales and protected by Cadw as a scheduled ancient monument under reference GM188.
Morfa House 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.
Morfa House 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 GM188.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Llantwit Major Gatehouse (1.5 km), Llantwit Major Dovecot (1.6 km), Llantwit Major Monastic Settlement (Site of) (1.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Morfa House 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.
Morfa House Round Barrow stands on Lias Group, bedrock that formed in the Aalenian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, limestone and sandstone.