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Tower Hill Round Barrow is a prehistoric round barrow located in Wales and protected by Cadw as a scheduled ancient monument under reference BR147. The site sits upon bedrock of the Ludlow series, comprising mudstone, siltstone and sandstone deposits that form the geological foundation of this upland landscape. These rocks, formed during the Ludlow period of the Silurian era, underlie much of the Welsh borderlands and provide the stable base upon which the barrow was constructed.
Round barrows are burial monuments built during the Bronze Age and represent one of the most distinctive features of prehistoric Britain's funerary landscape. Tower Hill's position on Ludlow bedrock places it within a geologically defined region that has shaped human settlement and movement patterns since prehistoric times. The solid geology would have provided suitable conditions for the construction and preservation of the earthwork.
As a scheduled monument under Cadw's protection, Tower Hill Round Barrow remains an important record of Bronze Age burial practices in Wales. The barrow survives as a tangible link to the prehistoric communities who inhabited this landscape, and its preservation ensures that future archaeological investigation may yield further evidence of the people and society that built and used this monument.
Tower Hill Round Barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference BR147. View the official record →
Tower Hill Round Barrow is a prehistoric round barrow located in Wales and protected by Cadw as a scheduled ancient monument under reference BR147.
Tower Hill Round Barrow 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.
Tower Hill Round Barrow 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 BR147.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cwrt Llechryd moated site (3 km), Coed Chwefri Vickers Machine Gun Emplacement (3.3 km), Caer Beris (3.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Tower Hill Round Barrow'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.
Tower Hill Round Barrow stands on Ludlow Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Ludlow. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.