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Cefn Car settlement is a medieval building site located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference GM571. The monument occupies ground underlain by Upper Devonian rocks of sandstone and conglomerate, formed during the Late Devonian period. This solid geology provided a stable foundation for settlement in the medieval period, whilst the local stone would have been readily available for building material.
The site represents a modest domestic structure from the medieval centuries, preserved in the Welsh landscape as an archaeological record of rural habitation and land use. The unclassified status of the building reflects the modest nature of the remains, which do not fit neatly into grander typologies of castle or manor house. Such settlements form part of the dense network of medieval occupation across Wales.
Protected monument designation ensures that Cefn Car remains a significant record of medieval Welsh settlement patterns and domestic life. The site contributes to our understanding of how ordinary medieval communities organised their buildings and agriculture across the varied terrain of Wales, anchored to the solid Devonian bedrock that characterises this geological region.
Cefn Car settlement is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference GM571. View the official record →
Cefn Car settlement is a medieval building site located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference GM571.
Cefn Car settlement dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a building (unclassified). It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Cefn Car settlement is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is GM571.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ring Cairn South of Twyn Blaennant (8.8 km), Cyfarthfa balance pond and leat (8.9 km), Gwersyll (9.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Cefn Car settlement's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Cefn Car settlement stands on Upper Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.