Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Medieval Settlement on Penybont Common
Penybont, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Deserted Rural Settlement
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 26 November 1997
- Community
- Penybont
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.26898, -3.28075
- SAM number
- RD157
- Cadw record number
- 11
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 consists of the remains of a deserted rural settlement, probably dating to the medieval or post-medieval period and located on common land close to streams. Five rectangular house platforms are terraced into the sloping ground, each c.10-13m long and c.7-8m wide, some with traces of doorways in their long sides. There is one enclosure bank on the west, only visible on this one side and an extensive area of ridge and furrow with separating long field banks, measuring c.200m long and 100m wide with a terminal bank on the east.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of medieval or post-medieval settlement organisation. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. A deserted rural settlement may be part of a larger cluster of monuments 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
- Milestone sited approx. 800m NE of Road Junction with A44Transportunder 1 mi
- Penybont Common Roman road and early turnpike roadRoadunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box opposite Severn Arms HotelCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Coed-swydd enclosureEnclosure - Defensiveunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.