Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Moulton Roman Site
Llancarfan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llancarfan, Vale of Glamorgan, recorded as Building (Unclassified) (Roman).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Building (Unclassified)
- Period
- Roman
- Date of designation
- 10 March 1958
- Community
- Llancarfan
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.41791, -3.33329
- SAM number
- GM253
- Cadw record number
- 3467
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1930 · OS Popular Edition 1919-1947 (National Library of Scotland)
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 building complex, which dates to the Romano-British period (c. AD 74 - 410). Situated at 76m OD on the north side of the valley of the river Waycock, evidence for Roman occupation was discovered during excavations in the late 1950s. The presence of rectilinear, plastered walls, opus signinum, sandstone roof slabs and samian ware suggests that the site may have been a rural villa built to emphasise the high status, wealth and Romanised cultural values of the landed elite of the local native tribe.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of Romano-British rural settlement and socio-economic organisation. The feature forms an important element within the wider context of Romano-British society in Wales and retains significant archaeological potential. Villas are often part of a larger cluster of rural and urban settlements 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
- Castle DitchesHillfortunder 1 mi
- Trewallter Fawr FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at Trewallter FawrAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
- Walterstone FachDomestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.