Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gelli Hill Round Barrow
Glascwm, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Glascwm, Powys, recorded as Round Barrow (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Glascwm
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.21542, -3.32028
- SAM number
- RD034
- Cadw record number
- 743
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 197 Hay (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (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 round barrow built of earth and stones, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The barrow is circular in shape on plan and has a rounded profile. It is situated on the summit of Gelli Hill, and measures c.22m in diameter and c.2.5m high. It has been disturbed by the construction of an OS pillar, which is off-centre to the north-west, and by the digging of two small adjoining circular hollows on the south-west side, the western one of which may be the site of an old antiquarian excavation, since it appears to adjoin traces of a trench c.3m long and c.1.2m wide, running slightly east of north from it.
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
- Gelli Hill Stone CircleStone Circleunder 1 mi
- Gilwern Hill round cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Garnfawr Deserted Rural SettlementRectangular hutunder 1 mi
- Gilwern Hill, round cairn on NE ofRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.