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Trelystan Church House Round Barrows is a prehistoric round barrow located in Wales and protected by Cadw as a scheduled ancient monument under reference MG286. The site sits upon bedrock of Ludlow Rocks, a formation of undifferentiated mudstone, siltstone and sandstone dating to the Ludlow period, which provides the geological foundation beneath the monument.
Round barrows are Bronze Age burial mounds, typically constructed between approximately 2200 and 1500 BCE, and represent one of the most numerous archaeological monuments in Britain. They were built as funerary monuments to contain the remains of individuals of status within their communities, often accompanied by grave goods such as pottery and metalwork. The mound itself was created through the deliberate accumulation of earth and stone.
The Ludlow bedrock underlying Trelystan Church House provides a stable base typical of upland Welsh locations where many barrows were constructed. The mudstone and siltstone geology characteristic of this period would have influenced the construction materials available to the monument builders and the drainage characteristics of the burial environment. The preservation of the barrow across the intervening millennia owes much to its protected status and its placement within the Welsh landscape.
Trelystan Church House Round Barrows is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference MG286. View the official record →
Trelystan Church House Round Barrows is a prehistoric round barrow located in Wales and protected by Cadw as a scheduled ancient monument under reference MG286.
Trelystan Church 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.
Trelystan Church 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 MG286.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Caerbre (8.6 km), Offa's Dyke: section one mile 750yds (2290m) from Dudston Covert to a point 300yds (274m) N of Lack Brook Also in Powys: Wales (8.7 km), Montgomery Castle (9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Trelystan Church 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.
Trelystan Church House Round Barrows stands on Ludlow Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Ludlow. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.