Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tal-y-Gaer Corbelled Hut
Pencaer, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Pencaer, Pembrokeshire, recorded as Corbelled Hut (Early Medieval).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Corbelled Hut
- Period
- Early Medieval
- Community
- Pencaer
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.00788, -5.07093
- SAM number
- PE210
- Cadw record number
- 3350
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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)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 209 St David's (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (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 corbelled hut, probably dating to the medieval period. The building has been constructed by using large boulders at the base of the walls with smaller stones above them built vertically, then corbelled inward to be capped with a series of flat smallish stones.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of medieval settlement. The monument forms an important element within the wider medieval context and the scheduled area may be expected to contain a wide range of archaeological information, including chronological detail and evidence in regard to construction techniques. The corballed hut 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. It is a circle and measures 6m in diameter, centred on the hut.
Nearby in the register
- Talygaer, PwllderiDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garn Fawr CampHillfortunder 1 mi
- Studio Cottage to N.of Garn Fawr CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garn FawrDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.