Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Round Barrow 135m NW of Rosehill Farm Gorsedd
Whitford, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Whitford
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.28072, -3.28034
- SAM number
- FL050
- Cadw record number
- 3732
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of an earthen built round barrow, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The barrow is circular in shape on plan, and has a flat-topped profile. The barrow measures 26m in diameter and is 3m high. The barrow was disturbed in 1868, but removal of material ceased when human bones were discovered.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The features are an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retain significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Barrows may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Y Gorseddau Round BarrowsRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Engine HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Former School & School Master's HouseEducationunder 1 mi
- Holly HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.