Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Enclosure and Early Field System North of Fronhill, Llanfair
Llanfair, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Field System
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 16 February 1996
- Community
- Llanfair
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.84754, -4.10626
- SAM number
- ME158
- Cadw record number
- 905
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 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Monument.
This monument is part of the remarkable and extensive landscape of early settlement which survives above Harlech. It comprises the remains of an earthwork/stone-built enclosure as well as extensive and unusually well defined associated field boundaries, dating from the Iron Age or Romano-British periods (c. 800 BC - AD 400). Within the field system there are also several irregular cairns of cleared stone. The enclosure is particularly well preserved and the absence of stone features within the interior might suggest that it once contained timber structures. Alternatively it may have served as an enclosure for livestock. Other monuments of similar date have also survived in this area.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of later prehistoric settlement and agriculture. The site is well preserved and retains considerable archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of evidence relating to chronology, building techniques and functional detail. The site forms an important element within the wider later prehistoric context and within the surrounding landscape. Taken together with the other monuments of similar date in this area the site also has considerable 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
- Groes Las Prehistoric Settlement & Field SystemEnclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Muriau'r Gwyddelod Ancient VillageCourtyard houseunder 1 mi
- Out-kitchen and pigsty at Groes LasAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Brwyn-Llynau Enclosed SettlementEnclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.