Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Coed-y-bryn round barrow
Whitford, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 2 December 2003
- Community
- Whitford
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.30178, -3.30666
- SAM number
- FL209
- Cadw record number
- 4044
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 a round barrow, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within dense woodland. The barrow is circular on plan and measures about 20m in diameter and up to 1.2m in height.
The monument is of national importance as an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual. The monument retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence, including traces of a buried prehistoric land surface underneath. Its probable association with several other Bronze Age sites in the vicinity further enhances its importance.
The area to be scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular and measures 30m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Maen Achwyfan CrossCrossunder 1 mi
- Bryn Digrif Round BarrowsRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Pentre Ffynnon MillAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Pentre Ffynnon FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.