Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Llandovery Roman Site
Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, recorded as Fort (Roman).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Fort
- Period
- Roman
- Date of designation
- 11 April 1961
- Community
- Llandovery
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.00162, -3.79377
- SAM number
- CM188
- Cadw record number
- 661
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1860 map "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 212 Llandovery (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 212 Llandovery (Hills) (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 Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises two overlapping Roman forts at Llandovery. The monument survives as buried features, except for part of the defensive circuit of the later fort on the W and N sides, which is marked by a significant break in slope. The later fort is rectangular in shape and masks much of the earlier fort. It measures c. 160m SW-NE by c.120m transversely. The primary Roman fort network was designed and constructed by the Roman army for the purpose of military conquest and garrison and dates from the Flavian-Trajanic period (AD 74 to 117).
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of Roman military organisation. The monument is an important element of the Roman occupation of Wales and the structures have been demonstrated, through excavation and geophysical survey, to contain well preserved archaeological evidence concerning chronology, stratigraphy, layout and building techniques.
The area scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is polygonal in shape and measures 370m NE-SW by 80m transversely.
Nearby in the register
- Monument & memorial of William Williams in churchyard of St Mary's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Lychgate to Church of St MaryRecreationalunder 1 mi
- Windermere HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.