Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
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Mechell, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A scheduled monument in Mechell, Isle of Anglesey, recorded as Enclosure (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Enclosure
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Mechell
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.39148, -4.43024
- SAM number
- AN079
- Cadw record number
- 2531
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.
The monument comprises the remains of a nearly square earthwork enclosure, consisting of a ditch between two banks enclosing an area 42m W - E and 39m N – S. It may have been a farmstead or stock enclosure and is probably prehistoric in date.
It is situated on a SW facing slope. The N, S and W sides are nearly ploughed-out but the E side remains as a ditch 2m deep, an inner bank nearly 1m high and an outer bank 0.3m high. The ditch is about 4m wide, as are the inner and outer banks. The entrance was on the W side.
An earthen round barrow (AN110) is situated on the hilltop 160m N of the earthwork, the two sites are inter-visible.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric agricultural and domestic practices. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. The structure itself may be expected to contain archaeological information concerning chronology and building techniques.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Pen-y-Morwyd Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Church of St PeirioReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Bryn DduDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pant-y-cryntachDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.