NPRN15409
Map ReferenceST19SW
Grid ReferenceST1063590078
Unitary (Local) AuthorityCaerphilly
Old CountyGlamorgan
CommunityCaerphilly
Type Of SiteDESERTED RURAL SETTLEMENT
PeriodPost Medieval
DescriptionThis deserted settlement complex consists of a longhouse, with two enclosures appended to its southwestern and western side. These features are all defined by earthwork banks. The longhouse measures 19.2 metres long overall, on a northwest to southeast axis, by 9.5 metres wide. It is terraced into the hill slope along its northwestern edge, parallel to the contours, which has created the levelled area on which it stands. Originally recorded as a long hut, it is better described as a longhouse as it clearly had two rooms or cells, with a drop in floor level from the southeast to the northwest cell. This is a typical Welsh longhouse feature, with the domestic quarters at the upper floor or ?pen llawr? and an animal byre on the lower level or ?is-llawr.?
Abutting the southwestern side of the longhouse is a rectangular enclosure, which measures 13.7 metres west-northwest to east-southeast, by 11.6 metres wide. A second, narrower, enclosure adjoins the western end of the longhouse, this measuring 15.2 metres west-northwest to east-southeast, by 10.7 metres wide.
The area was largely obscured by thick bracken when visited in 1991 and in the autumn of 2012, obscuring many details of the settlement complex.
R.P.Sambrook, Trysor, 20 March 2013