Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ffoeslaprey Settlement
Llanbister, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llanbister, Powys, recorded as Deserted Rural Settlement (Medieval).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Deserted Rural Settlement
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 2 September 1999
- Community
- Llanbister
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.35187, -3.22095
- SAM number
- RD172
- Cadw record number
- 1611
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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)
- 1899 · 180 Knighton (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 Monument.
The monument consists of the remains of a deserted rural settlement, probably dating to the medieval or post-medieval period. There are three large, well defined house platforms, varying from 22m to 31m in length, built on sloping ground close to a source of water. Surface undulations could indicate the presence of buried structures.
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. It square with sides measuring 70m long.
Nearby in the register
- Rhos-crug hut platform (W)House Platformunder 1 mi
- Rhos-crug Hill settlementHouse Platformunder 1 mi
- Rhos-crug hut platform (E)House Platformunder 1 mi
- Rhos Crug Round BarrowsRound Barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.