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Tessellated Pavement, Penydarren Roman Fort

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 00829m
Trust : Glamorgan Gwent
Community : Park
Unitary authority : Merthyr Tydfil
NGR : SO05100685
Site Type (preferred type first) : Roman Mosaic

Summary :
When Pen-y-darren house was being built a tesselated pavement was found. What became of it is not known.

Description :
A 19th century antiquarian account of Merthyr Tydfil notes that ‘When Penydarren House was built (1789), the workmen found a great many Roman bricks, and a tessellated pavement, in digging the foundations (Wilkins 1867, 2). Penydarren House lies close to the north of the northern defences of the Roman fort, and this, if reported correctly, is an unusual position for a substantial masonry building, given that the baths lie on the opposite side of the fort. There is insufficient information to be able to determine anything more of this building.

Sources :
Wilkins, C , 1867 , The history of Merthyr Tydfil
01/MM Record Card/OS//1953/SO 00 NE 8.6/;
03/PM Desc Text//James FT/1906/Archaeol Cambrensis/Vol6 pp193-208
02/PM Desc Text//Wilkins C/1908/Hist of Merthyr Tydfil/p25;

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Compiled date : 01-12-1977


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