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Tythegston Long Barrow is a prehistoric burial monument situated in Wales on bedrock of the Lias Group, a sequence of mudstone, siltstone, limestone and sandstone laid down during the Aalenian period. The barrow belongs to a tradition of communal burial architecture that flourished across Britain and northern Europe during the Neolithic, typically dating from around 4000 to 2500 BC. Long barrows served as focal points for ritual and social identity within early farming communities.
The monument's construction would have involved the substantial labour of gathering and arranging stone or earth to form an elongated mound, often with stone chambers at one end for the deposition of the dead. The underlying geology of mudstone and siltstone at Tythegston would have required builders to work with locally available materials, shaping their monument according to both available resources and the demands of their ceremonial practices.
The site is now protected by Cadw, the historic monuments service of Wales, under the reference GM022. This designation recognises its archaeological significance as evidence of Neolithic settlement, subsistence practices and burial customs in prehistoric Wales. Long barrows of this period remain among the most substantial surviving monuments from the Neolithic era.
Tythegston Long Barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference GM022. View the official record →
Tythegston Long Barrow is a prehistoric burial monument situated in Wales on bedrock of the Lias Group, a sequence of mudstone, siltstone, limestone and sandstone laid down during the Aalenian period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference GM022.
Tythegston Long Barrow dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a long barrow. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Tythegston Long Barrow 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 GM022.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Heol y Mynydd Round Barrow (4.6 km), Croes Antoni (5 km), St Bride's Major Churchyard Cross (5.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Tythegston Long Barrow'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.
Tythegston Long Barrow stands on Lias Group, bedrock that formed in the Aalenian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, limestone and sandstone.