Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pantdaniel Defended Enclosure
Beulah, Ceredigion, Wales
A scheduled monument in Beulah, Ceredigion, recorded as Enclosure (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Enclosure
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 14 January 2008
- Community
- Beulah
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.09925, -4.49198
- SAM number
- CD264
- Cadw record number
- 1253
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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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 194 Llangranog (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 78. Lampeter. (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 a lowland defended enclosure, which probably dates to the Iron Age period (c. 800 BC - AD 74, the Roman conquest of Wales). It is located towards the bottom of a gentle SE-facing slope overlooking the Afon Medeni. The earthwork is sub-oval in shape and consists of a single earthen bank and external ditch. The bank measures 95m in length NE-SW, 80m NW-SE in width and 1m in height. The ditch survives to 5m in width and 0.5m in depth.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of later prehistoric defensive organisation. It forms an important element within the wider later prehistoric context and within the surrounding landscape. Although the site lies under improved pasture, much archaeological potential remains; both the interior and rampart may be expected to contain archaeological information concerning chronology, building techniques and functional detail.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is an irregular polygon in shape on plan and measures 128m NE-SW by 116m transversely.
Nearby in the register
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- Plas TroedyraurDomesticunder 1 mi
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- Milestone on A487 1Km NE of TanygroesTransport2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.