Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mellington Hill Round Barrow
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 31 August 2001
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.49995, -3.11000
- SAM number
- MG284
- Cadw record number
- 3852
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 1637 "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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 earthen built round barrow, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC) and stand in a prominent position on the summit of Mellington Hill. The barrow measures 27m in diameter and 2m high.
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. It is a circle with a radius of 16m, centred on the cairn.
Nearby in the register
- Offa's Dyke: Section from Road Junction near Drewin to County BoundaryLinear Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Pentrenant FarmhouseDomestic1 mi
- Pentrenant HallDomestic1 mi
- Offa's Dyke: Cwm SectionLinear Earthwork1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.