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Tri Chrugiau Round Barrows is a prehistoric round barrow cemetery located in Wales and protected as a scheduled ancient monument by Cadw under reference BR101. The site comprises multiple burial mounds constructed during the Bronze Age, when such earthworks served as communal or family burial places for the dead of local communities.
The barrows sit upon bedrock formed from Ludlow Rocks, a geological formation dominated by mudstone, siltstone and sandstone deposits that date to the Ludlow period of the Palaeozoic era. This underlying geology would have presented specific working conditions for the Bronze Age people who constructed the mounds, affecting both the materials available locally and the effort required to create these monuments.
Round barrows of this type typically contained inhumation burials, sometimes accompanied by pottery vessels and metal objects that reflected the status and beliefs of the deceased. The survival of multiple barrows at Tri Chrugiau indicates the site's sustained importance as a burial place across generations. Such barrow cemeteries represent key archaeological evidence for Bronze Age settlement patterns, social organisation and ritual practices in prehistoric Wales.
Tri Chrugiau Round Barrows is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference BR101. View the official record →
Tri Chrugiau Round Barrows is a prehistoric round barrow cemetery located in Wales and protected as a scheduled ancient monument by Cadw under reference BR101.
Tri Chrugiau 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.
Tri Chrugiau 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 BR101.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Twyn Cerrig-Cadarn Round Cairn (5.3 km), Stone Circle and Round Cairn W of Ynyshir (5.5 km), Tir-cyd Deserted Rural Settlement (6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Tri Chrugiau 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.
Tri Chrugiau Round Barrows stands on Ludlow Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Ludlow. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.