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Guilsfield Moated Site is a medieval domestic enclosure located in Powys, Wales, comprising a moated homestead that represents a characteristic form of high-status rural settlement in the Welsh Marches during the medieval period. The site consists of a substantial rectangular moat enclosing an area of approximately two acres, which would have contained the residential and ancillary buildings of a minor landowner or substantial farmer. Dating to the medieval period, likely from the thirteenth or fourteenth century onwards, the moated site exemplifies the defensive and status-conscious domestic architecture common among the Welsh gentry and English settlers in the border region. The preservation of the moat as an earthwork feature makes the site an important archaeological record of medieval domestic settlement patterns in mid-Wales.
Guilsfield Moated Site is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference MG305. View the official record →
Guilsfield Moated Site is a medieval domestic enclosure located in Powys, Wales, comprising a moated homestead that represents a characteristic form of high-status rural settlement in the Welsh Marches during the medieval period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference MG305.
Guilsfield Moated Site dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a moated site. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Guilsfield Moated Site 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 MG305.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cursus, Llwyn-Wron (revealed by aerial photography) (6.6 km), Llwynderw Round Barrow (7.8 km), Offa's Dyke: Section from North Lodge, Leighton Park to Old Quarry S of Green Wood (8.2 km).
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