Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
House Platforms N of St. Mary's Churchyard
Wiston, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- House Platform
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 16 March 1995
- Community
- Wiston
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.82572, -4.87159
- SAM number
- PE461
- Cadw record number
- 1448
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (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 the remains of two sub-rectangular earthen building platforms, which probably date to the prehistoric/Medieval period. The platforms are located in the broad roadside verge immediately to the north of St Mary’s Churchyard in Wiston.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric/medieval settlement. The monument forms an important element within the wider prehistoric/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 and agricultural methods. House platforms may be part of a larger cluster of settlement 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.
Nearby in the register
- Telephone Call-box to N of the Church of Saint MaryCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Village Pump at WistonWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Wiston CastleMotte and Baileyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.