Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Montgomery Medieval Town, Kerry Gate Extra Mural Settlement
Montgomery, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Montgomery, Powys, recorded as Extra-mural settlement (Medieval).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Extra-mural settlement
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 16 November 1993
- Community
- Montgomery
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.55793, -3.14930
- SAM number
- MG225
- Cadw record number
- 483
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 1637 map "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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 · 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 house-sites dating to the medieval and earlier post-medieval period. This is a settlement where previous house sites are now unoccupied, but visible as earthworks, crop or soil marks. The earthworks form a series of at least eight building platforms and a hollow way probably representing the remains of a small extra mural development outside the former Kerry Gate. Some of the platforms have since been built over. A settlement is depicted in this vicinity on cartographic sources from 1610 and the eighteenth century.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of medieval settlement organisation. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Plas TrefaldwynDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Hollies and front wall, railings and gateDomesticunder 1 mi
- The RampartsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Myrtle CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.