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Trichrug Round Barrows is a prehistoric round cairn located in Wales, situated on bedrock of Llandovery sandstone and conglomerate. The monument is protected as a scheduled ancient monument by Cadw, the Welsh heritage organisation, under reference CD061. Round cairns of this type typically date to the Bronze Age and served as burial monuments for prominent members of prehistoric communities.
The geological foundation of Llandovery sandstone and interbedded conglomerate would have provided readily available stone for the cairn's construction. The builders of this monument selected materials from the local bedrock, creating a durable structure that has survived millennia on the Welsh landscape. The choice of this particular location reflects the practical knowledge of prehistoric peoples regarding available resources and site selection.
Round cairns functioned as communal or individual burial monuments, often containing stone-built chambers or cist burials. The form of Trichrug Round Barrows, built from the native stone geology of its location, represents a fundamental architectural approach to monumental construction in prehistoric Wales. Such cairns remain important evidence of Bronze Age funerary practice and social organisation across the Welsh uplands and moorland regions where suitable stone was abundant.
Trichrug Round Barrows is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CD061. View the official record →
Trichrug Round Barrows is a prehistoric round cairn located in Wales, situated on bedrock of Llandovery sandstone and conglomerate. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CD061.
Trichrug Round Barrows dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a round cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Trichrug 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 CD061.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Castell Trefilan (2.8 km), Llan-Llyr Inscribed Stone (4 km), Defended Enclosure 350m E of Bank Green Grove (4.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Trichrug 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.
Trichrug Round Barrows stands on Llandovery Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Llandovery. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.