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Enclosure, Field System & Hollow-ways North of Pant is a medieval enclosure protected by Cadw as a scheduled monument. Located in Wales, the site comprises an enclosed area alongside associated field divisions and deeply worn trackways that reflect patterns of medieval land use and settlement. The monument sits upon Dinantian limestone bedrock interspersed with sandstone and argillaceous rocks, geology that would have influenced both the site's drainage and the surrounding agricultural potential.
The hollow-ways represent centuries of repeated use by both livestock and people traversing the landscape, their depth a physical record of medieval and post-medieval activity. The field system demonstrates how communities organised and worked the land around their settlement, dividing it into manageable plots for cultivation and pasture. Such arrangements were typical of Welsh rural communities during the medieval period, adapted to local topography and resource management.
The monument survives as earthwork features visible in the landscape today. Its protection by Cadw recognises the archaeological value of this surviving ensemble of enclosure, fields and ways, which together preserve evidence of medieval settlement patterns and land use practices in the Welsh countryside.
Enclosure, Field System & Hollow-ways North of Pant is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference FL163. View the official record →
Enclosure, Field System & Hollow-ways North of Pant is a medieval enclosure protected by Cadw as a scheduled monument. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference FL163.
Enclosure, Field System & Hollow-ways North of Pant dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a enclosure. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Enclosure, Field System & Hollow-ways North of Pant 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 FL163.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bron Fadog Enclosure (2.4 km), Round Barrow 135m SE of Lodge Farm (4.5 km), Round Barrow 180m E of Mwccwd (5.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Enclosure, Field System & Hollow-ways North of Pant'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.
Enclosure, Field System & Hollow-ways North of Pant stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.