Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lettypeod Deserted Rural Settlement
Painscastle, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- House Platform
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 1 June 2000
- Community
- Painscastle
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.13092, -3.22312
- SAM number
- RD185
- Cadw record number
- 1650
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 Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of three circular/rectangular earthen building platforms, which probably date to the Medieval period. The large and substantial platforms have been cut into steeply sloping ground in order to provide flat bases for timber or earth buildings. Protection was offered by an earth bank further upslope.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric/medieval settlement. The monument forms an important element within the wider prehistoric/medieval context and the scheduled area may be expected to contain a wide range of archaeological information, including chronological detail and evidence in regard to construction techniques and agricultural methods. House platforms may be part of a larger cluster of settlement 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
- Old House at HondonDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Great HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn Range at the Great HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Red Hill Cross Ridge DykeCross Ridge Dyke1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.