Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cyfannedd-Fach Homestead
Arthog, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Arthog, Gwynedd, recorded as Platform house (Medieval).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Platform house
- Period
- Medieval
- Community
- Arthog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.69548, -4.02573
- SAM number
- ME101
- Cadw record number
- 272
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 149 Barmouth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of medieval/post-medieval platform houses and associated settlement. The site is located in a sheltered north-east facing hollow with views north-eastward over the Mawddach estuary and mountains beyond.
A group of at least three rectangular buildings survives at foundation level and in places up to 1.0m high. The two main houses measure approximately 12m x 7m and are divided into two rooms, the smaller of which is within the upslope end. One of these larger houses is overlain by a later sheep fold. There are also two single-roomed structures of 8m x 5m and 7m x 5m respectively. All walls are approximately one metre in thickness. There are also traces of fields and paddocks surrounding the site.
There are a number of natural stone outcrops on the site which provide mooring points for the walls and probably served as quarries.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of medieval and post-medieval social and domestic life.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Bron-Llety-Ifan cairns and cup-marked rockKerb Cairnunder 1 mi
- Enclosure & Settlement 400m East of Cyfannedd FawrHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
- MilepostTransportunder 1 mi
- Round Hut and Cairns on NW Slope of Braich DduRing Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.