Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cefn Wylfre Deserted Rural Settlement
Aberedw, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- House Platform
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 1 June 2000
- Community
- Aberedw
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.14870, -3.26478
- SAM number
- RD186
- Cadw record number
- 1651
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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 platform, which probably date to the Medieval period and are set close together in a line on the south-west facing slope of Cefn Wylfre. A low foundation wall is still visible on one of the platforms. They are all of similar form and may have been in contemporary.
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
- Cefn Wylfre Stone Circle and Round BarrowStone Circleunder 1 mi
- Cefn Wylfre Platform HousePlatform houseunder 1 mi
- Cwm-BerllanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St DavidNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.