Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Llidiart-Garw Platform House and Paddock
Talsarnau, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Talsarnau, Gwynedd, recorded as Platform house (Medieval).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Platform house
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 17 March 1980
- Community
- Talsarnau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.87841, -4.06415
- SAM number
- ME112
- Cadw record number
- 3232
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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 · 135 Harlech (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 a well-preserved and typical example of a platform house with adjoining enclosure and paddock.
The house and enclosure occupy a level terrace on a NW-facing slope. The house is orientated roughly E-W (at right-angles to the slope) and is 3.5m wide and 8m long internally. The walls are grass-covered stone 1m wide and 0.2m high. At the W end the platform is raised by 0.6m and the supporting wall is 1.5m wide. There may have been entrances in both the N and S sides, towards the W end.
The house sits within an enclosure marked by a line of boulders to the N and a low stone bank to the S.
The adjacent enclosure to the W (paddock) sits on the crest of a high natural terrace and is marked by a wall of large boulders 0.6m high on the S side, and a low grass-covered stone bank on the N side.
Traces of ridge and furrow cultivation running E-W are visible in the field to the S (and possibly to the N too).
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of medieval settlement. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. The structures themselves may be expected to contain archaeological information concerning chronology and building techniques.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Tyddyn Sion Wyn Ring CairnRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Ffridd Fedw Round Hut, Enclosure, Ancient Fields and Kerb CairnKerb Cairnunder 1 mi
- Tyddyn Sion WynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Moel Goedog CampHillfortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.