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Five Round Barrows on Garth Hill is a prehistoric round barrow cemetery situated in Wales. The monument comprises five earthen mounds constructed during the Bronze Age, a period when such burial structures dominated the upland landscape. As a group barrow site, it represents a significant burial focus that would have served a local community or succession of communities over several centuries.
The barrows are located on geology formed during the Carboniferous period, resting on the South Wales Upper Coal Measures Formation. This bedrock of mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete would have influenced both the construction of the mounds and the settlement patterns of Bronze Age communities in the area. The upland setting of Garth Hill reflects the typical location of such monuments, often positioned on prominent ground where they would remain visible across the surrounding terrain.
The site is protected and scheduled by Cadw, the Welsh heritage authority, under reference GM107. This formal protection recognises the archaeological significance of the barrow group and ensures the preservation of any buried deposits and structural features that may survive beneath the earthworks. The cemetery remains an important surviving monument to Bronze Age funerary practice in South Wales.
Five Round Barrows on Garth Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference GM107. View the official record →
Five Round Barrows on Garth Hill is a prehistoric round barrow cemetery situated in Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference GM107.
Five Round Barrows on Garth Hill 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.
Five Round Barrows on Garth Hill 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 GM107.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Remains of Peterston Castle (7.3 km), Old Bishop's Palace, Llandaff (7.6 km), Two Cooking Mounds E of Ty'n-y-Pwll (8.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Five Round Barrows on Garth Hill'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.
Five Round Barrows on Garth Hill stands on South Wales Upper Coal Measures Formation, bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.