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Coed-cnwr Cwnwr Moated Site, Llantrisant Fawr

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 01111g
Trust : Glamorgan Gwent
Community : Llantrisant Fawr
Unitary authority : Monmouthshire
NGR : ST41259943
Site Type (preferred type first) : Medieval Moat
Status : Scheduled Monument

Summary :
Scheduled Ancient Monument of Coed-Cwnwr moated site (MM060).

Description :
A roughly square earthwork labelled 'Camp' is shown on first Edition Ordnance Survey (OS) mapping (OS map).
Listed as Roman Camp, Llanllewell (old parish name) (Nash-Williams 1933) Shown on OS as Roman camp, but is in fact a homestead moat of post-Norman date (Downman 1914).

The interior includes a 14m wide platform, which may have been constructed for a building, though no visible trace of such remains (Edwards 1957). A well preserved moated site (Whittle 1987)



Sources :
, OS Record Card
, OS Record Card
, OS Record Card
Nash-Williams, V E , 1933 , An Early Iron Age hillfort at Llanmelin, Monmouthshire, Archaeologia Cambrensis : 88 : 237-346
Ordnance Survey , 1st Edition OS map 6"
Savory H.N. , 1950 , List of Hill-Forts and Other Earthworks in Wales: II Monmouthshire , The Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies : XIII pt.IV : 231-238

Events :
E008772 : GGAT52: Monmouthshire Historic Settlements, Trellech & Usk (year : 1997)

Related records
National Monuments Record NPRN 94877 http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/94877/details

Compiled date : 02-05-1988


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