Petrographic, geochemical, zircon U-Pb geochronogical and Hf isotopic data are presented for the exposed metavolcanic rocks in Hengshan region to determine their eruption age, petrogenesis and geodynamic significance in the Trans-North China Orogen, North China Craton. Zircon U-Pb dating of the rocks yielded a weighted mean 207Pb/206Pb age of 2508 ± 20 Ma, indicating that their protoliths were erupted in the late Neoarchean. Geochemically, the Hengshan metavolcanic rocks are composed of basalt and basaltic andesite and marked by variable SiO₂ (45.51%–62.67%), FeOt (4.43%–15.72%) and MgO (3.75%–8.14%) contents, indicative of product of derivation from a mantle source with subsequent fractional crystallization of clinopyroxene, hornblende and magnetite. These metavolcanic rocks are characterized by enrichments in light rare earth elements (LREE) and large-ion lithophile elements (LILE), as well as depletions in heavy rare earth elements (HREE) and high-field-strength elements (HFSE), with relatively high Th content and Th/Yb values, similar to those of the typical calc-alkaline arc-like volcanic rocks. Such arc-like geochemical signatures, together with some incompatible elemental ratios (e.g., Nb/Yb, Zr/Yb and (Nb/La)N), reveal their origination from a sub-arc enriched mantle wedge variably metasomatized by the slab-derived dehydration fluids. Combined with the region geological background, these Hengshan metavolcanic rocks were developed on a continental arc setting in the late Neoarchean.