Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Earthworks SW of Church
Llanafanfawr, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Earthwork (unclassified)
- Period
- Medieval
- Community
- Llanafanfawr
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.18926, -3.51304
- SAM number
- BR089
- Cadw record number
- 1740
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument consists of an earthwork of unknown character and date. It comprises a slightly raised plateau, circular in shape with a diameter of 27m. It is surrounded by a deep ditch that is waterlogged in parts, measuring 0.5m wide and 1-1.3m deep. A low outer bank, around 0.5m high on the outside, surrounds the ditch.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of defensive, agricultural or settlement organisation. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Red Lion InnCommercialunder 1 mi
- Church of St AfanReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Bryn IeuauDomesticunder 1 mi
- Standing Stone SSE of Dol-y-FelinStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.