Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hanmer Moated Site
Hanmer, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Moated Site
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 4 December 1992
- Community
- Hanmer
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.95286, -2.80814
- SAM number
- FL184
- Cadw record number
- 2229
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 1637 "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (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 the remains of a well-preserved medieval moated homestead and is located near to Hanmer Church on the northern side of a pasture field. The site measures 100m WNW-ESE x 85m N-S and consists of a low lying oval mound with a maximum height of 2.5m, which is probably glacial in origin. The sides of the mound have been scarped, and it is surrounded by a wide ditch, 10m-12m in width, and on the south and north-east, an outer bank. The top is gently sloping, and the whole is grass covered.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of medieval settlement. The monument is well preserved and is an important relic of the medieval landscape. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of intact archaeological deposits and structural evidence.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It follows the fence line in the north-west and skirts the outer bank on its presumed line at a 5m distance.
Nearby in the register
- Hanmer ArmsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Cottage and butcher's shopNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- The CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hanmer Hall FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.