Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Caersws Roman Fort and Vicus: section in southern part of vicus
Caersws, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Caersws, Powys, recorded as Vicus (Roman).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Vicus
- Period
- Roman
- Date of designation
- 23 April 1997
- Community
- Caersws
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.51576, -3.42957
- SAM number
- MG242
- Cadw record number
- 3515
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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 · 164 Llanidloes (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 following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument consists of a vicus, a district, suburb or quarter of a town or village adjacent to a fort, with the lowest legal status accorded to a built up area, dating to the Roman period (1st to 5th century AD). This is an open, undeveloped area, located to the south of Caersws Roman Fort, in which recent excavations have revealed well preserved and deeply stratified Roman occupation.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of Roman military and urban organisation. The monument forms an important element within the wider context of the Roman occupation of Wales and the structures may contain well preserved archaeological evidence concerning chronology, layout and building techniques.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Dol-aethnenDomesticunder 1 mi
- Caersws Roman Fort: Section of South Western DefencesFortunder 1 mi
- Caersws Roman Fort and Vicus: section in SE part of vicusVicusunder 1 mi
- Caersws bridgeTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.