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Scheduled Monuments in Monmouthshire
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Cwm Bwchel - Bronze Age - A partially destroyed cairn (15m in diameter by 1.3m high) with parts of a cist.
Craig Ddu - Bronze Age - A round cairn (15m in diameter by 1.5m high) with a central cist. Excavated in 1979.
Loxidge - Bronze Age - A grassed cairn (6.5m in diameter by 0.7m high).
Rhiw Arw - Bronze Age - A cairn on Hatterral Hill Ridge, measuring 7m in diameter and 0.5m high. NB OS Grid Ref SO not SH
Three Wells - Bronze Age - A well-preserved, largely intact, turf covered cairn (8m in diameter and 0.3m high).
Image | Name | Details | Site type | Period[a] | Community & Location | SAM No & Refs |
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Caerwent Roman Town (Venta Silurum) | Extensively excavated Roman town. Much of the excavated remains are now open to the public. | House (domestic) | Roman | Caerwent 51°36′45″N 2°46′06″W / 51.6126°N 2.7683°W, ST469907 |
MM001[1] | |
Crick Round Barrow | A round barrow (41m in diameter and 1.5m high). Excavations in 1939 and 1979 found bronze age flint tools, funerary remains, and a stone kerb ring 29m in diameter. Some of the cup stones may have been used for astronomical observations.[2] | Round barrow | Bronze Age | Caerwent 51°36′32″N 2°44′45″W / 51.6088°N 2.7459°W, ST484902 |
MM151[3] | |
Croes Lwyd Farm Cross | An octagonal cross shaft and head carved from a single block. Marked on a 14th century map. | Cross | Early Medieval | Raglan 51°45′30″N 2°52′12″W / 51.7584°N 2.8699°W, SO400069 |
MM156[4] | |
Five Lanes Roman Site | Remains of a Roman villa comprising a winged corridor with five rooms and other structures. Near to the Roman town at Caerwent. | Villa | Roman | Caerwent 51°36′55″N 2°48′04″W / 51.6153°N 2.8011°W, ST446910 |
MM350[5] | |
Five Lanes Round Barrow | One of a pair of Bronze Age barrows (the other is not scheduled). The barrow is 35m in diameter but was probably smaller (25m). | Round barrow | Bronze Age | Caerwent 51°36′52″N 2°47′41″W / 51.6144°N 2.7946°W, ST450909 |
MM179[6] | |
Foresters' Oaks round barrow | A Bronze Age barrow approximately 16m in diameter and 1m high. | Round barrow | Bronze Age? | Caerwent 51°38′34″N 2°49′31″W / 51.6428°N 2.8254°W, ST429941 |
MM333[7] | |
Gray Hill Stone Circle | Fourteen visible stones, nine of which lie on their sides end to end, forming a circle. Possibly curb stones for a burial mound, or a stone circle. | Stone circle | Bronze Age | Caerwent 51°38′16″N 2°48′49″W / 51.6379°N 2.8136°W, ST437935 |
MM031[8] | |
The Grotto, Piercefield | A small domed alcove made of brick and built to provide a shaded seat with spectacular views across the Wye Valley. One of the features on the 18th century Piercefield Walk. | Grotto | 18th Century | St Arvans 51°39′30″N 2°40′36″W / 51.6584°N 2.6766°W, ST532957 |
MM283[9] | |
The Larches Camp | A roughly D-shaped hill top fort (140m by 100m), with an area of about 1.24 hectares. The north is protected by a steep slope, with a bank and ditch around the rest of the site. | Hillfort | Iron Age | Caerwent 51°36′21″N 2°49′13″W / 51.6058°N 2.8202°W, ST432899 |
[10]MM069 | |
Skirrid Fawr hillfort | An elongated roughly oval multivallate hillfort at the northern end of a mountain ridge. The area of the hillfort includes the foundations of St Michael's Chapel. | Hillfort | Iron Age | Llantilio Pertholey 51°51′28″N 2°58′23″W / 51.8579°N 2.9731°W, SO330181 |
MM182[11] | |
St Michaels Chapel (remains) | The foundations of a medieval chapel (4m north-south by 7.5m east-west) at the northern end of a mountain ridge. The chapel lies within the area of the Skirrid Fawr hillfort. | Chapel | Early Medieval | Llantilio Pertholey 51°51′28″N 2°58′23″W / 51.8579°N 2.9731°W, SO330181 |
MM182[11] | |
Trellech Cross | The remains of a wayside preaching cross consisting of two stone steps and a socket stone. | Cross | Medieval | Trellech United 51°43′59″N 2°43′35″W / 51.733°N 2.7263°W, SO499040 |
MM108[12] | |
Trellech Shrunken Medieval Village | From 1250 to its decline around 1600, Trellech was a booming iron-melting centre. The scheduled area is close to the present village centre but an on-going archaeological dig further south has found many building foundations. | Shrunken Medieval Village | Medieval | Trellech United 51°44′32″N 2°43′23″W / 51.7422°N 2.723°W, SO501050 |
MM272[13] | |
Whitewall Brake Roman Site | Rectilinear complex of building ranges and courts, where a Roman mosaic, along with characteristic Roman building debris was discovered | Villa | Roman | Caerwent 51°37′00″N 2°45′33″W / 51.6168°N 2.7592°W, ST475911 |
MM152[14] |
Notes
[edit]- ^ The Cadw spreadsheet lists sites by vary broad categories, for example, Prehistoric covers Paleolithic to Iron Age. Where possible, the Period has been changed, based on the (cited) records from Coflein and/or GGAT.
References
[edit]- ^ Cadw SAM: MM001 Caerwent Roman City. coflein NPRN: 93753. GGAT PRN: 01055g.
- ^ Powell, M J (1995). "Astronomical Indications at a Bell-barrow in South Wales". Journal for the History of Astronomy, Archaeoastronomy Supplement. 26. Science History Publications: S49. Retrieved 24 Jan 2014.
- ^ Cadw SAM: MM151 Crick Round Barrow. coflein NPRN: 307966. GGAT PRN: 01057g.
- ^ Cadw SAM: MM156 Cross on Croes Lwyd Farm. coflein NPRN: 306485. GGAT PRN: 00794g.
- ^ Cadw SAM: MM350 Five Lanes Roman Site. coflein NPRN: 405453. GGAT PRN: 00983g.
- ^ Cadw SAM: MM179 Round Barrow 250m North East of Five Lanes. coflein NPRN: 93494. GGAT PRN: 08454g.
- ^ Cadw SAM: MM333 Foresters' Oaks round barrow. coflein NPRN: 401578. GGAT PRN: 08654g.
- ^ Cadw SAM: MM031 Grey Hill Stone Circle. coflein NPRN: 307979. GGAT PRN: 00987g.
- ^ Cadw SAM: MM283 The Grotto, Piercefield. coflein NPRN: 23104. GGAT PRN: 07825g.
- ^ Cadw SAM: MM069 The Larches Camp. coflein NPRN: 307950. GGAT PRN: 00473g.
- ^ a b Cadw SAM: MM182 Remains of St Michael's Chapel and Skirrid Fawr Defended Enclosure. Chapel - coflein NPRN: 306440 and GGAT PRN: 01473g. Enclosure - coflein NPRN: 400378 and GGAT PRN: 01497g.
- ^ Cadw SAM: MM108: Trellech Cross Cross-Base. coflein NPRN: 306488. GGAT PRN: 00965g.
- ^ Cadw SAM: MM272 Trellech Shrunken Medieval Village. coflein NPRN: 300132. GGAT PRN: 04291g.
- ^ Cadw SAM: MM152 Whitewall Brake Roman Site. coflein NPRN: 307961. GGAT PRN: 01034g.