Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Long House South of Talarfor
Aberdaron, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Longhouse
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 30 November 1999
- Community
- Aberdaron
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.82414, -4.62512
- SAM number
- CN318
- Cadw record number
- 1627
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 remains of a longhouse, a barn or dwelling under one roof, located south of Talarfor. The monument is visible as low stone foundations defining a building 11m x 6.5m set on an artificial earth platform dug into a south facing slope overlooking Porth Neigwl bay. The form of the remains suggest that the building could have been built during the medieval period.
The site has particular archaeological importance because of its survival in a good and apparently little disturbed condition in an area where other contemporary sites have been lost or damaged. The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of medieval or post-medieval settlement organisation. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. A longhouse 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.
Nearby in the register
- Ffynnon AelrhiwWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Church of St AelrhiwReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The Old RectoryDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding NE of Old RectoryDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.