Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Roman Water Tank E of Brunant Farm
Cynwyl Gaeo, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Water Tank
- Period
- Roman
- Date of designation
- 20 October 1986
- Community
- Cynwyl Gaeo
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.05503, -3.93214
- SAM number
- CM237
- Cadw record number
- 655
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (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 the well preserved remains of a Roman water tank measuring 14m x 9m situated on the north facing slope of the Cothi valley above the Cothi aqueduct. It is fed by a stream in its SE corner which now flows out through a breach in the NW side. It presumably supplemented the water supply in the Cothi aqueduct below, though there is now no trace of any channels leading from it.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of water management systems. 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.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Annell Aqueduct (lower section)Aqueductunder 1 mi
- CefngarrosDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn Range at cefn-Coed MawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- cow-shed at Cefn-Coed MawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.