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House Platforms N of St. Mary's Churchyard is a medieval house platform located in Wales. The site lies on bedrock of Llandovery age, comprising mudstone, siltstone and sandstone that would have presented significant challenges to medieval settlement. The platform represents a deliberately levelled domestic surface, created to provide stable ground for a timber or stone structure during the medieval period. Such platforms are characteristic of upland or uneven Welsh landscapes where natural topography required modification to accommodate dwelling sites.
The monument sits north of St. Mary's Churchyard, positioning it within the wider settlement pattern of the parish. Medieval house platforms like this typically survive as low earthworks, visible as rectangular or irregular depressions and banks where soil and rubble were moved to create a level building surface. The proximity to the church indicates this was an established settlement area, where the religious and domestic centres of community life existed in close proximity.
The site is protected by Cadw under reference PE461, recognising its archaeological significance as evidence of medieval domestic activity and settlement history. House platforms of this type contribute to understanding how communities adapted to challenging terrain and organised themselves around focal points such as parish churches. The monument preserves information about medieval land use, building practices and the distribution of settlement across the Welsh landscape.
House Platforms N of St. Mary's Churchyard is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference PE461. View the official record →
House Platforms N of St. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference PE461.
House Platforms N of St. Mary's Churchyard dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a house platform. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
House Platforms N of St. Mary's Churchyard 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 PE461.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Picton Castle Mound (4.5 km), Sister's House (4.6 km), Castle Lake Camp (5.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of House Platforms N of St. Mary's Churchyard'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.
House Platforms N of St. Mary's Churchyard stands on Llandovery Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Llandovery. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.