The Bronze Age stone circles of Mitchell's Fold and the now largely destroyed The Whetstones lie at the foot of the hill within Shropshire and Powys respectively.

The hill lies about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Offa's Dyke, built during the 8th century to mark the border between Wales and England (or Mercia).

However, the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust did excavate several small quarry depressions in 2008, but found only evidence of fairly recent disturbance.

In this area, the altered Hope Shales of the Ordovician Period on the margin of the dolerite (diabase) produce finely laminated flagstones, which were widely used on building on the Shropshire–Montgomeryshire border.

Only a few buildings still have the flagstones as roofing slates, including the Old Post Office at Church Stoke and the porch to Hurdley Farmhouse.