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Two Round Barrows on Moel Maen Efa is a prehistoric round barrow cemetery located in Wales and protected by Cadw. The site comprises two burial mounds constructed during the Bronze Age, when such monuments were built across Britain and Wales as communal and individual sepulchres. Their construction would have required considerable community effort, with earth and stone gathered to form substantial mounds that would have dominated the local landscape.
The barrows are situated on bedrock of Ludlow Rocks, undifferentiated mudstone, siltstone and sandstone formations of Ludlow age. This geology would have influenced where and how the mounds were built, as the underlying stone and soil determined the materials available for construction. The elevated position of Moel Maen Efa would have offered visibility across the surrounding terrain, a characteristic often observed in barrow placement, allowing the monuments to serve as territorial or genealogical markers.
The site represents an important element of the prehistoric funerary landscape. Such barrow cemeteries frequently contained burials accompanied by grave goods, though the specific contents and history of these mounds remain the subject of archaeological study. The monuments remain a significant record of Bronze Age mortuary practices and social organisation in Wales.
Two Round Barrows on Moel Maen Efa is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference FL049. View the official record →
Two Round Barrows on Moel Maen Efa is a prehistoric round barrow cemetery located in Wales and protected by Cadw. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference FL049.
Two Round Barrows on Moel Maen Efa 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.
Two Round Barrows on Moel Maen Efa 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 FL049.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Denbigh Friary Church (8.2 km), Old Foxhall Earth Circle (8.7 km), Old Foxhall Round Barrow (8.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Two Round Barrows on Moel Maen Efa'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 Round Barrows on Moel Maen Efa stands on Ludlow Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Ludlow. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.