Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tor y Foel Deserted Rural Settlement
Talybont-on-Usk, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Platform house
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 5 March 2001
- Community
- Talybont-on-Usk
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.86435, -3.29071
- SAM number
- BR283
- Cadw record number
- 824
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 a platform house, a levelled area of ground on which a house is built. The house is set on a natural terrace below the summit of Tor y Foel and comprises the low stoney foundations of a long hut measuring 20m x 7.5m set on an artifical earthen platform. A second platform of similar dimensions is located beside it.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of settlement organisation. 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. a platform house may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is a rectangle with sides measuring 30m x 50m.
Nearby in the register
- Llanddetti Bridge (Canal Bridge No.139)Transport1 mi
- Llanddetty Hall FarmhouseDomestic1 mi
- Llanddetty Hall barn and attached rangesAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
- Group of 5 chest tombs S of St Tetta's churchCommemorative1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.