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Round Barrow 225m SE of Plas Newydd is a prehistoric round barrow situated in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference FL076. The monument sits upon Dinantian limestone bedrock, a durable foundation of Mississippian age comprising limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks that would have provided solid ground for burial construction. The barrow represents a form of funerary monument characteristic of Neolithic and Bronze Age communities across Britain and Wales, when such earthen mounds marked the graves of significant individuals or family groups.
The limestone geology underlying the site is typical of much of Wales and formed during an ancient shallow sea environment hundreds of millions of years ago. Such solid bedrock would have influenced prehistoric settlement patterns and land use in the area. The barrow's location in the landscape, 225 metres south-east of Plas Newydd, places it within a broader pattern of prehistoric burial sites distributed across the Welsh countryside, where the visible mound would have served as a permanent marker to commemorate the dead and assert territorial identity within the ancient community.
Round Barrow 225m SE of Plas Newydd is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference FL076. View the official record →
Round Barrow 225m SE of Plas Newydd is a prehistoric round barrow situated in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference FL076.
Round Barrow 225m SE of Plas Newydd 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.
Round Barrow 225m SE of Plas Newydd 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 FL076.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bron Fadog Enclosure (2.5 km), Round Barrow 180m E of Mwccwd (4.7 km), Round Barrow 135m SE of Lodge Farm (5.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Round Barrow 225m SE of Plas Newydd'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.
Round Barrow 225m SE of Plas Newydd stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.