Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Clawdd Llesg
Meifod, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Meifod, Powys, recorded as Linear Earthwork (Early Medieval).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Linear Earthwork
- Period
- Early Medieval
- Community
- Meifod
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.69243, -3.24814
- SAM number
- MG098
- Cadw record number
- 1999
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)
- 1899 · 151 Welshpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (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 consists of a linear earthwork, or dyke, a substantial bank and ditch forming a major boundary between two adjacent landholdings. Most date from the later prehistoric or Early Medieval period. It comprises a bank and ditch constructed across a ridge between 2 small streams. On the south side of the road which cuts the dyke the bank has been much reduced by ploughing in the past and is not well-preserved. The north section also runs through pasture, but is better preserved and stands to a height of c. 1.0m, with ditch on E, c. 1.0m deep in parts.
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 linear earthwork 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
- Clawdd Wood CampEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Clawdd Wood round barrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Broniarth Hill CampEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Ty BrithDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.