Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Buckholt Wood Hilltop Enclosure
Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Enclosure
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 29 November 1996
- Community
- Monmouth
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.83972, -2.72411
- SAM number
- MM258
- Cadw record number
- 1473
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (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.
A prehistoric enclosure lying just below the highest part of Buckholt wood hill behind a steep scarp which drops to the south and west commanding extensive views in the directions. The enclosure comprises an impressive bank and ditch on the north and east. On the north, the bank turns sharply to run south-west. On the south east it turns sharply to run south-west. On this side, a bank continues beyond the corner to run for another 40m, perhaps intended as an extension or outer enclosure to the main enclosure.
The main enclosure measures some 80m north-west/south-east. The western bank of the main enclosure is fainter but still traceable along the steep scarp.
Nearby in the register
- Old Cider House at Great Manson FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Great Manson FarmhouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Large Barn at Great Manson FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Buckholt Neolithic EnclosureEnclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.