Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bwlch y Clawdd Dyke
Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
A scheduled monument in Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taff, recorded as Linear Earthwork.
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Linear Earthwork
- Period
- Unknown
- Date of designation
- 21 November 1996
- Community
- Treorchy
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.63907, -3.53302
- SAM number
- GM500
- Cadw record number
- 1459
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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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1907 · 248 Pontypridd (Hills) (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 a linear earthwork, a substantial bank and ditch forming a major boundary between two adjacent landholdings. The dyke is thought to be of early medieval date. Its bank is 4.5m wide and 1.5m high, running for a distance of 200m south-west to north-east across a ridge. The front face may once have been revetted. The north-east half of the dyke has a secondary bank about 12m from it on the outer side of the ditch. The secondary bank is about 2m wide and 0.5m high.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of later prehistoric/medieval defensive oranisation and settlement. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. A linear earthwork 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
- Mynydd Ton CairnsRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Church of St GeorgeReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- Mynydd Maendy HillfortHillfort1 mi
- Bwlch yr Avan DykeDyke1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.