Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Crugyn Bank Dyke
Kerry, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Kerry, Powys, recorded as Linear Earthwork (Early Medieval).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Linear Earthwork
- Period
- Early Medieval
- Community
- Kerry
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.46112, -3.31721
- SAM number
- MG062
- Cadw record number
- 2625
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 165 Montgomery (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The monument consists of the remains of a dyke, a defensive boundary or earthwork, dating to the later prehistoric/medieval period.
Crugyn Bank Dyke comprises a linear earthwork running WNE-ESE across the ridge between Glog Mountain in the south-west and the lower hill to the north-east. It consists of a bank standing up to 1.7m high, with a ditch and counterscarp bank on the south-west side.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of later prehistoric/medieval defensive organisation and settlement. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. A dyke 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
- Crugyn Round BarrowsRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- CrugynDomesticunder 1 mi
- CaerlydanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Two Tumps Round BarrowsRound Barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.