Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Moat NW of Merryborough Farm
Wiston, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Wiston, Pembrokeshire, recorded as Moated Site (Medieval).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Moated Site
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 9 September 1994
- Community
- Wiston
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.81648, -4.90976
- SAM number
- PE465
- Cadw record number
- 684
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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)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 228 Haverfordwest (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 comprises the remains of a well-preserved medieval moated homestead.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of medieval settlement. The monument is well preserved and is an important relic of the medieval landscape. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of intact archaeological deposits and structural evidence.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is a square, with sides 70m in length.
Nearby in the register
- Good Hook Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Zion Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Northumberland FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gates of Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.