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Round Barrow 495m SE of Parc y Prysau is a prehistoric round barrow situated in Wales on bedrock of Dinantian limestone, sandstone and argillaceous rocks. This Mississippian geology provided the local stone resources available to Bronze Age communities when constructing burial monuments across the region. The barrow represents a typical funerary monument of the Bronze Age period, built as a cairn or mound to cover a central burial deposit.
The monument stands within a landscape shaped by the underlying limestone formation, which would have influenced both the settlement patterns and the practical choices involved in its construction. The stone-rich ground of the Dinantian bedrock made mounding an accessible means of marking important graves and commemorating the dead within the community's territory.
The barrow is protected by Cadw, the Welsh heritage organisation, under the reference FL054, acknowledging its significance as a surviving prehistoric monument. Such round barrows remain important archaeological records of Bronze Age burial practice and social organisation across Wales, preserving evidence of ancient ritual and landscape use beneath their earthen forms.
Round Barrow 495m SE of Parc y Prysau is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference FL054. View the official record →
Round Barrow 495m SE of Parc y Prysau is a prehistoric round barrow situated in Wales on bedrock of Dinantian limestone, sandstone and argillaceous rocks. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference FL054.
Round Barrow 495m SE of Parc y Prysau 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 495m SE of Parc y Prysau 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 FL054.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Moel y Gaer Camp (4.2 km), Round Barrow 450m E of Penbedw Hall (4.4 km), Penbedw Park Stone Circle & Standing Stone (4.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Round Barrow 495m SE of Parc y Prysau'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 495m SE of Parc y Prysau stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.