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Bier Hill Round Barrows is a prehistoric round barrow located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference PE470. Round barrows represent one of the most distinctive monument types of Bronze Age Britain and Ireland, typically constructed as burial mounds between approximately 2200 and 1000 BC. These earthworks served as communal or family repositories and often contained cremated or inhumed remains, accompanied by grave goods reflecting the status and beliefs of the buried individuals.
The monument sits upon Lower Devonian rocks of sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded deposits formed during the Early Devonian period over 400 million years ago. This bedrock geology would have influenced both the original landscape and the practical construction of the barrow, shaping how water drained through the site and determining the character of soil and stone available to the builders.
As a round barrow, the monument retains archaeological significance as a surviving example of Bronze Age funerary practice and landscape use in Wales. Such monuments frequently contain deposits that can reveal much about past populations through their material culture, settlement patterns and ritual traditions. The barrow's survival under Cadw's protection ensures continued opportunity for study and public understanding of this important period in Welsh prehistory.
Bier Hill Round Barrows is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference PE470. View the official record →
Bier Hill Round Barrows is a prehistoric round barrow located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference PE470.
Bier Hill Round Barrows dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a round barrow. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Bier Hill Round Barrows is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is PE470.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The Old Palace, Lydstep (2.2 km), Whitewell (2.4 km), Manorbier Castle (2.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Bier Hill Round Barrows's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Bier Hill Round Barrows stands on Lower Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Early Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.