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Garth Hill Platform House is a medieval domestic structure located in Wales and recorded under Cadw's Scheduled Ancient Monuments designation GM552. The site comprises a platform house, a dwelling type characteristic of medieval Wales in which the residential building was constructed upon an artificially levelled or raised platform, a practice that provided both practical advantages for drainage and defence, and reflected the status of its occupant. The platform house represents an important vernacular building tradition of the medieval Welsh countryside, distinct from stone-built structures and offering archaeological evidence of settlement patterns and domestic organisation during the medieval period. Such sites remain significant for understanding rural settlement evolution and the material culture of medieval Welsh communities.
Garth Hill Platform House is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference GM552. View the official record →
Garth Hill Platform House is a medieval domestic structure located in Wales and recorded under Cadw's Scheduled Ancient Monuments designation GM552. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference GM552.
Garth Hill Platform House dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a platform house. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Garth Hill Platform House 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 GM552.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cefn Cross Standing Stone (7.4 km), Pen-y-Castell Camp (7.9 km), Remains of Iron Furnace Near Angleton (8.6 km).
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