Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Scollock Rath
Wiston, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Rath
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 14 March 1951
- Community
- Wiston
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.88166, -4.87966
- SAM number
- PE244
- Cadw record number
- 340
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.
The monument comprises a small defended enclosure or rath, which probably dates to the Iron Age period (800 BC - 43 AD). Usually enclosed by a bank and ditch, raths often contain evidence of intensive occupation. Scollock Rath is defined by an earth and stone bank surrounding a sub- circular interior of about 100m diameter that slopes gently to the south west. The bank stands to 2m above the interior and 3m above an external rock-cut ditch. The ditch is best preserved on the northeast, east and south sides; elsewhere it has been reduced to a slight hollow. The entrance on the south west is enveloped by an outer bank that defines a sub-rectangular annexe or barbican measuring about 70m north to south by 30m east to west, unlike the main enclosure this has been levelled-up, and is thought to represent a later phase.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of Iron Age settlement and social organisation. The monument forms an important element within the wider later prehistoric landscape. The structure itself may be expected to contain archaeological information in regard to chronology, building techniques and functional detail.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Llewellin Monument at Scollock West FarmCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Woodstock Calvinistic Methodist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Walton Mill RathEnclosure1 mi
- Church of Saint MeilyrReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.