Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Sealyham Rocks Camp
Wolfscastle, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Rath
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 9 July 1951
- Community
- Wolfscastle
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.91627, -4.95431
- SAM number
- PE253
- Cadw record number
- 337
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 contsin evidence of intensive occupation. Sealyham Rocks Camp is defended by a bank 10ft above exterior and 6ft above interior and by a steep rock outcrop.
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
- Church of Saint DogfaelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Inscribed Stone in ChurchyardInscribed Stoneunder 1 mi
- Sealyham BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- SealyhamDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.