Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pillow Mounds at Pant Mawr
Ystradfellte, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Ystradfellte, Powys, recorded as Pillow Mound (Post Medieval/Modern).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Pillow Mound
- Period
- Post Medieval/Modern
- Community
- Ystradfellte
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.80823, -3.61706
- SAM number
- BR173
- Cadw record number
- 1795
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 231 Merthyr Tydfil (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 231 Merthyr Tydfil (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (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 consists of the remains of a series of pillow mounds, pillow-shaped, flat topped rectangular mounds often surrounded by a shallow ditch used to farm rabbits. The site consists of at least 80 pillow mounds located within a walled enclosure. The pillow mounds are between 20m and 140m long, around 4m wide and up to 1.2m high and surrounded by ditches averaging 1.5m wide and 0.3m deep. A series of dry stone lined pits are also located on the site, possibly for use as rabbit traps, while a series of quadrilateral dry stone walled enclosures, measuring 18m long by 12m wide and containing pits may represent rabbit breeding pens.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of agricultural techniques. 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
- Sand Hill round cairnRound Cairn1 mi
- Round Cairn NW of Blaen-Nedd IsafRound Cairn2 mi
- Sand Hill ring cairnRing Cairn2 mi
- Outbuilding at BerthlwydAgriculture and Subsistence2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.