Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bank House Medieval Settlement
Penybont, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Penybont, Powys, recorded as Deserted Rural Settlement (Medieval).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Deserted Rural Settlement
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 20 March 1998
- Community
- Penybont
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.23530, -3.34201
- SAM number
- RD159
- Cadw record number
- 13
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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)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 179 Rhyader (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (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, located on a sloping valley side on east bank of a tributary of the River Ithon. There are four rectangular house platforms running north-south along the slope, each house orientated east-west with their eastern side cut into the uphill slope, their western end levelled up, measuring (S-N) c12m by 6m, c.13m by 7m, c.16m by 7m and c.10m by 7m respectively. Some 40m to their north, is a single platform with two sides of a rectilinear enclosure to its north, and 90m to the north of this, a single outlying platform house. A bank runs east-west somewhat down slope from the main group of platforms.
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
- Cwmbrith Round CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Upper LlanoleyDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ffrwd standing stoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Cefnllys Medieval Settlement and Field SystemsField Systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.