Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Abercynafon Neolithic Site
Talybont-on-Usk, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Waterlogged deposit
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 15 December 1998
- Community
- Talybont-on-Usk
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.84737, -3.34338
- SAM number
- BR249
- Cadw record number
- 870
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (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 two waterlogged deposits. One area has been archaeologically investigated and comprised split oak timbers used to create a platform or walking surface, extending out towards the centre of the present pond. The timbers were dated to between 2917 and 1717 BC, making it Neolithic. Earlier deposits possibly dating to the late 4th millennium BC were found beneath the structure and later deposits from the Roman period were also evident overlying the structure. Small scale boring tests in the second area demonstrated prehistoric evidence of a similar nature. Abercynafon is a unique and important archaeological site, the only one of its kind in Wales.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of waterlogged deposits. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits, together with a strong probability of environmental evidence.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Abercynafon farmhouse and attached farm rangeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at AbercynafonAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Bridge at AbercynafonTransportunder 1 mi
- Pont Blaen-y-glynTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.