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Two Burnt Mounds, located 600 metres east-south-east of Rhyd-y-Ffynnon Farm, is a prehistoric burnt mound of Bronze Age date. The monument comprises two distinct mounds composed of burnt stone and charcoal, evidence of ancient thermal technology used to heat water for bathing, cooking or metalworking. The site's underlying Pridoli bedrock—a mudstone, siltstone and sandstone sequence—would have provided raw material readily available to prehistoric communities working the Welsh landscape.
Burnt mounds are characteristic features of Bronze Age settlement across Britain and Ireland, though their precise function remains debated among archaeologists. The preservation of two separate mounds at this location is noteworthy, suggesting repeated or extended use of the site. The accumulation of heat-shattered stones resulted from heating rocks in fires before plunging them into water-filled troughs, a labour-intensive process that speaks to the value placed on hot-water activities in prehistoric society.
The monument is protected by Cadw, the Welsh Historic Monuments service, under reference CM285. The rural setting near Rhyd-y-Ffynnon Farm preserves the burnt mounds within their original landscape context, enabling study of their relationship to contemporary settlement patterns and resources across the Welsh uplands.
Two Burnt Mounds 600m ESE of Rhyd-y-Ffynnon Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CM285. View the official record →
Two Burnt Mounds, located 600 metres east-south-east of Rhyd-y-Ffynnon Farm, is a prehistoric burnt mound of Bronze Age date. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CM285.
Two Burnt Mounds 600m ESE of Rhyd-y-Ffynnon Farm dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a burnt mound. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Two Burnt Mounds 600m ESE of Rhyd-y-Ffynnon Farm 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 CM285.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cincoed Limestone Quarries and Kilns (3.1 km), Group of Burnt Mounds 300m SSW of Cilcoll Farm (3.1 km), Limekilns East of Cincoed (3.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Two Burnt Mounds 600m ESE of Rhyd-y-Ffynnon Farm'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.
Two Burnt Mounds 600m ESE of Rhyd-y-Ffynnon Farm stands on Pridoli Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Pridoli. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.