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New House Round Barrows is a prehistoric round barrow located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference PE178. The monument sits upon bedrock of Pridoli age rocks, an undifferentiated sequence of mudstone, siltstone and sandstone that provides the underlying geology of this part of Wales. This solid foundation would have been familiar to the prehistoric communities who built the barrow, though they themselves raised their monument from soil and stone gathered from the surrounding landscape.
Round barrows typically served as burial monuments during the Bronze Age, constructed as earthen or stone mounds to commemorate and contain the dead. The New House barrows represent an important archaeological survival, preserving evidence of prehistoric funerary practices and social organisation. Their presence in the Welsh landscape reflects the widespread tradition of round barrow construction across Britain during the second millennium BC.
The monument's formal protection ensures the preservation of this archaeological site for future study and public understanding. Round barrows of this period are relatively common across the British landscape, yet each individual site carries local significance, reflecting the specific communities and territories of prehistoric Wales.
New House Round Barrows is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference PE178. View the official record →
New House Round Barrows is a prehistoric round barrow located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference PE178.
New House 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.
New House 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 PE178.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Longstone Camp (1.6 km), Castle Heli Mound (3.7 km), The Castle, Woodreefe (4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of New House 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.
New House Round Barrows stands on Pridoli Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Pridoli. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.