Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Fron Top Deserted Rural Settlement
Llanbister, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Platform house
- Period
- Post Medieval/Modern
- Date of designation
- 10 November 1999
- Community
- Llanbister
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.40334, -3.29725
- SAM number
- RD173
- Cadw record number
- 1612
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 1588 "Ortelius, Abraham: Theatro De La Tierra Universal. 0" (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Monument.
The monument consists of a platform house, a levelled area of ground on which a house is built. The house at Fron Top is set on an earth platform with a number of associated enclosures or pens. The dwelling is rectangular in shape and had two opposed entrances and the interior was divided into two interconnected rooms of equal size. There is a well preserved area of ridge and furrow nearby.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of settlement organisation. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. The structure itself may be expected to contain archaeological information concerning chronology and building techniques. a platform house 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
- Castell y Blaidd Medieval SettlementDeserted Rural Settlementunder 1 mi
- Castell y BlaiddEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Coventry Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Round Barrow to W of Ty'n-y-ddol HillRound Barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.