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Pen-y-Brongyll Round Barrow is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Denbighshire, Wales, designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument under the reference DE226. The barrow represents a form of burial practice characteristic of the Bronze Age period, when such earthen mounds were constructed to mark and contain the graves of significant individuals within the community. The monument's physical form as a round barrow reflects the widespread funerary traditions of prehistoric Britain, where such structures served both as repositories for the dead and as enduring landscape features marking territorial or genealogical significance.
Pen-y-Brongyll Round Barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference DE226. View the official record →
Pen-y-Brongyll Round Barrow is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Denbighshire, Wales, designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument under the reference DE226. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference DE226.
Pen-y-Brongyll 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.
Pen-y-Brongyll 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 DE226.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Orseddwen cairn (5 km), Ring cairn and Selattyn Tower on Selattyn Hill (5.4 km), Offa's Dyke: section 1300yds (1190m) long, N from Careg-y-Big (6.3 km).
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