Gilwern Hill, Powys

Not to be confused with Gilwern Hill, Monmouthshire.

View looking across Gilwern Hill from the west

Gilwern Hill is a hill about 3 mi / 5 km southeast of Llandrindod Wells in the county of Powys, Wales.

Geology

The hill is composed from a range of lower and middle Ordovician volcaniclastic rocks which form a part of the Builth Inlier. Palaeontologists Pete Lawrance and Brian Beveridge have spent 30 years examining fossils from a privately owned limestone quarry on the hill. Amongst fossils so far identified at this location are the trilobites Meadowtownella, Bettonolithus, Protolloydolithus and Anebolithus together with Conulariida, Iocrinus, Clonograptus and starfish[1]

Stone rows

There are two prehistoric stone rows at the southern end of the hill, each with a large stone, more than 2m high, at one end.[2]

References

  1. ^ Old as the Hills website
  2. ^ "Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust: Prehistoric Funerary and Ritual Monuments in Radnorshire". Archived from the original on 11 January 2011. Retrieved 22 July 2010.

52°12′N 3°20′W / 52.200°N 3.333°W / 52.200; -3.333