Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bodafon Mountain Early Medieval Homestead
Moelfre, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A scheduled monument in Moelfre, Isle of Anglesey, recorded as Settlement (Early Medieval).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Settlement
- Period
- Early Medieval
- Community
- Moelfre
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.33713, -4.29692
- SAM number
- AN039
- Cadw record number
- 2517
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 93 Holyhead (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Monument.
Group consisting of rectangular huts and enclosures, with terraces and boundary walls, probably forming an early medieval residence. On SE slope of Bodafon Mountain, 1500m SSW of church.
A number of field boundaries can be seen within the forest surrounding the remaining buildings.
Excavated in 1954 by W E Griffiths.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of early medieval settlement. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. The structures themselves may be expected to contain archaeological information concerning chronology and building techniques.
The scheduled areas comprise the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Bodafon Mountain Hut GroupsUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Capel BethesdaReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Plas Bodafon, standing stone to WNW ofStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Plas BodafonDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.