List of Roman-to-modern scheduled monuments in Powys (Brecknockshire)
Powys is the largest administrative county in Wales. With over a quarter of Wales's land area, covering much of the eastern half of the country, it is a county of remote uplands, low population and no coastline. It was created in more or less its current form in 1974, and is the only one of the large county units created at that time to have been carried forward intact at the 1996 local government re-organisation. It comprises three historic counties, namely Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire, and most of Brecknockshire. There are 950 Scheduled monuments within the county, which is far more than can be sensibly covered in one list. Each of the 3 historic counties is therefore listed separately, and each of these has two lists - one for the prehistoric sites and one for the Roman, medieval and post-medieval sites.
This list shows the sites in Brecknockshire dating to Roman, medieval, post-medieval through to modern times. The area is also historically known as Breconshire, (not including those parts that are no longer in Powys). Brecknockshire is the southern third of Powys, and encompasses the Brecon Beacons National Park, the Black Mountains and Mynydd Epynt. The River Wye separates it from Radnorshire. There are 135 scheduled monuments on this list. Of these, 10 are Roman, all of which are military in purpose, being either roads or forts and camps. Nine date from the Early Middle Ages, mainly inscribed stones but also including a Crannog. There are 78 sites from the post-Norman Medieval period, including castles, mottes and moated sites, churches, town defenses and agricultural holdings. The 38 post-medieval sites are even more diverse, covering bridges, tramways, aqueducts, agricultural sites and lost villages, lead mines, coal mines, industrial sites, and two war-time features from the 1940s.
Scheduled monuments have statutory protection. It is illegal to disturb the ground surface or any standing remains. The compilation of the list is undertaken by Cadw Welsh Historic Monuments, which is an executive agency of the National Assembly of Wales.[1] The list of scheduled monuments below is supplied by Cadw[2] with additional material from RCAHMW and Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust.
Roman to modern scheduled monuments in Brecknockshire
The list is sorted by date, and then by Community so that sites of similar age and locality are placed near each other. Clicking on the heading arrows will sort the list by that information.
A royal hall of the kings of Brycheiniog, now surviving as an artificial island constructed of an oak palisade into which layers of stone, and soil were added. Archaeological digs in the waterlogged conditions have discovered textiles, leather, bronze items, a reliquary and a dugout boat.
Stone aqueduct built over a weir, carrying the Swansea Canal over the River Twrch. Its three massive arches make it the largest of the five aqueducts on the canal. Built in 1798 by Thomas Sheasby, it was innovative in using Hydraulic cement to line the trough instead of puddled clay. Its proximity to the Capitol Cinema gave it the local name of 'Capitol Bridge'. It was restored in 1995 but is not currently water-filled, the canal route on either side being dry.
Early tramroad, bringing coal from Drim Colliery and limestone (needed as a flux) from the quarries of Mynydd y Drum to the Ynyscedwyn Ironworks in the Swansea Valley. Built by Joseph Claypon in 1832 and in use until 1867, the tramroad linked with the Brecon Forest Tramroad,[132] and parts were later incorporated into the Swansea Vale Railway.
Dating to the early part of World War II, two pillboxes, trenches, and two lines of anti-tank blocks formed part of the Western Command Stop Line, in case of an invasion via Ireland.
^Cadw will send their list as a spreadsheet, or other electronic formats, on request, as indicated at www.whatdotheyknow.com. This list uses information dated May 2012
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR174: Roman Fort at Pen y Gaer
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: CM373: Abererbwll Roman Fort
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR003: Y Pigwyn
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR224: Roman Road on Mynydd Illtyd, south-western section
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR225: Roman Road on Mynydd Illtyd, North-Eastern section
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR148: Caerau Roman Site
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR380: Tynewydd Roman Road
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR001: The Gaer, Brecon
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR162: Roman Marching Camp NE of Maen Madog
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR074: Section of Road NE of Coelbren Fort
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR033: Crickadarn Camp
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR121: Cross-Slab in Churchyard
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR120: Cross-Slab in Church
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR109: Inscribed Stone in Church
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR122: Cross-Slab in Church
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR182: Early Christian Inscribed Stone in Defynnog Church
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR141: Ponsticill Inscribed Stone
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR018: Maen Madoc
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR022: Brecon Castle
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR046: Castle Mound 800m NNW of Ty'n-y-Caeau
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR236: St Eluned's Chapel and Well
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR177: Town Wall and Gatehouse at Captain's Walk
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR150: Town Wall at Watton Mount
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR008: Bronllys Castle
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR058: Bronllys moated site
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR031: Builth Castle
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR093: Caer Beris
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR111: Crickhowell Castle
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR055: Maes-Celyn Castle Mound
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR280: Cwmhindda Deserted Rural Settlement
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR179: Castle Earthwork 200m S of Coed Caeau
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR168: Gwenddwr Deserted Village
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR152: Llanfilo Moated Site
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR221: Medieval Building in Llanfilo Village
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR180: Moated Site 670m NE of Lower Penwaun
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR049: Moated Site 800m NE of Felinfach
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR050: Moated Site E of Pont-y-Bat Wood
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR195: Moated Site in Llanfilo Village
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR041: Oaklands Moated Site
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR127: Cilwhybert Castle Mound
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR266: Craig Cerrig-Gleisiad Deserted Rural Settlement
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR170: Earthwork 675m W of Dan-y-Cefn
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR351: Aberllynfi chapel
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR350: Glasbury Old Church
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR080: Great House Mound & Bailey Castle
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR077: Castle Mound near Swan Hotel
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR076: Hay Castle
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR155: Castell Madoc Ringwork
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR192: Castle Madoc Mound
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR191: Llandefaelog Fach Motte
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR089: Earthworks SW of Church
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR215: Hafotau Settlement on Bryn Melys
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR098: Ringwork near Coed Ty-Mawr
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR045: Alexanderstone Mound and Bailey Castle
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR196: Earthworks South West of Llanddew Church
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR057: Llanddew Castle
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR009: Castell Blaen-Llynfi
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR146: Tretower Barn
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR014: Tretower Castle
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR117: Tretower Court
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR238: Tretower Shrunken Medieval Settlement
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR056: Hen Castell
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR220: House Platforms and Hollow Ways in the Shrunken Medieval Village of Llanfihangel Tal-y-Llyn
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR054: Twmpan Castle Mound
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR187: Llangynidr Deserted Medieval Village (part of)
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR252: Pen Bwlych Glascwm Pillow Mounds
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR078: Llanthomas Castle Mound
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR200: The Scottish Pedlar Wayside Cross
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR183: Corn Drying Kiln 340m S of Cryn-Fryn
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR216: Hafotau Settlement on Esgair Gwar-y-Cae
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR263: Allt Fach Deserted Rural Settlement
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR223: Deserted Farmstead South of Ffynnon yr Oerfa
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR260: Rectangular Hut, Afon Tawe
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR026: Trecastle Mound and Bailey Castle
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR126: Castell-Du, Sennybridge
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR032: Clawdd British
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR143: Hirllwyn Camp
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR088: Cefn Barn Ringwork
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR047: Porthamal Tower
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR082: Tredustan Castle Mound
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR083: Trefecca Castle Mound
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR087: Trefecca-Fawr Moated Site
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR282: Cwm Cwareli Longhouse and Long Hut
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR283: Tor y Foel Deserted Rural Settlement
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR172: Churchyard Cross, St Issau's Church
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR298: Cwm Beusych Deserted Rural Settlement
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR300: Llwyn y Brain Deserted Rural Settlement
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR416: Two platform buildings on eastern side of Partrishow Hill
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR299: Y Cwrt Deserted Rural Settlement
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR037: Cwm Camlais Castle
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR290: Tir-cyd Deserted Rural Settlement
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR130: Caerau Castle Mound
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR131: Fforest Castle Mound
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR021: Aberyscir Castle Mound
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR081: Castell Coch
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR258: Enclosures East of Afon Llia
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR004: Brecon Bridge
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR199: Pont Gihirych
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR114: Porth Mawr
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR289: Cefn Corast Deserted Rural Settlement
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR281: Hendy Long Hut
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR390: Y Gyrn Hut Platform (N)
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR393: Y Gyrn Hut Platform (S)
^coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: BR392: Y Gyrn Hut Platforms