Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bryn Digrif Round Barrows
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)
- 53.30130, -3.31579
- SAM number
- FL116
- Cadw record number
- 3098
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 five round barrows or burial cairns, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC). The cairns are identified alphabetically as Barrow A, B, C, D and E. Barrow A is the northernmost and is located near the summit of a low rise, it has a diameter of some 45m and is some 3.7m in height, stones are exposed around the perimeter. Barrow B is located some 65m southwest of barrow A, it measures between 20 and 30m in diameter and is flat -topped and about 2m in height. Barrow C is located some 190m south of barrow B, it measures 40m in diameter and is some 2.5m in height. Barrow D is located some 150m southeast of barrow D, disturbed by the construction of the nearby road and a cottage it is an irregular mound 25m long southwest to northeast and 15m wide northwest to southeast. The barrow was partly excavated by Edward Lhuyd in 1695. Barrow E is the westernmost of the group and is located some 500m from the rest of the group, it is some 18m in diameter and 1m high and has been partly removed by the adjacent road.
The monuments are of national importance for their potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual. The monuments are an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retain significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence, including buried prehistoric land surfaces.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Maen Achwyfan CrossCrossunder 1 mi
- Coed-y-bryn round barrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrows 378m E of Berthen-Gam SchoolRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Round Barrow 350m SW of Glol FarmRound Barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.