Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Roman Road 300m East of Bryn Farm
Llanddewi Velfrey, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Road
- Period
- Roman
- Date of designation
- 6 November 1995
- Community
- Llanddewi Velfrey
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.83270, -4.67869
- SAM number
- PE472
- Cadw record number
- 1443
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 consists of the remains of a road, dating to the Roman period (1st to 5th century AD). The road is well preserved and measures 150m in length, covering a boggy field on a prominent grss-covered agger measuring circa 10m wide and up to 0.5m high. Trail excavations in 1993/94 showed that the full sequence of a two-phase road constuction survives.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of Roman military organisation/medieval transport systems. The monument forms an important element within the wider context of the Roman occupation/medieval settlement of Wales and the structure may contain well preserved archaeological evidence concerning chronology, layout and building techniques.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Glanrhyd HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Water house at rear of Glanrhyd HouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Offices & Outbuilding to W of Glanrhyd House (also known as The Court House)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Glanrhyd FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.