Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
House Platforms West of Dyffryn Wood
Dyffryn Clydach, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- House Platform
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 11 April 2001
- Community
- Dyffryn Clydach
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.68662, -3.84238
- SAM number
- GM549
- Cadw record number
- 814
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (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 four circular/rectangular earthen building platforms, which probably date to the medieval period. The house platforms are large, averaging 12m by 7m in size and were probably built to support timber buildings. They are situated on the east facing slope of Mynydd Drumau.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of medieval settlement. The monument forms an important element within the wider medieval context and the scheduled area may be expected to contain a wide range of archaeological information, including chronological detail and evidence in regard to construction techniques and agricultural methods. House platforms may be part of a larger cluster of settlement 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
- Round Cairn with Cist on Mynydd DrumauRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Carreg Bica Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Former icehouse to Dyffryn HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Grange, former stables and coach house to Dyffryn HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.