Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Site 300m SW of Tan-llan (revealed by aerial photography)
Llanfair Caereinion, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llanfair Caereinion, Powys, recorded as Hillfort (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Hillfort
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 10 March 1980
- Community
- Llanfair Caereinion
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.65502, -3.32297
- SAM number
- MG203
- Cadw record number
- 3004
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 Ancient Monument.
The monument consists of the remains of a defended enclosure, which probably dates to the Iron Age period, (c.800BC – AD74, the Roman Conquest of Wales). The site consists of a sub-circular, trivallate enclosure c.200m in diameter with narrow spaced outer ramparts. The innermost enclosure survives as an earthwork, although in a degraded state. The enclosure is set upon a gently sloping plateau above the Afon Banwy.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of later prehistoric defensive organisation and settlement. The site forms an important element in the wider later prehistoric context and within the surrounding landscape.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and the areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Neuadd LwydDomesticunder 1 mi
- Meas-y-NeuaddEducationunder 1 mi
- The VicarageReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Llanfair Caereinion Public Hall, Institute and LibraryEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.