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Moated Site E of Pont-y-Bat Wood is a medieval moated site located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference BR050. The monument consists of a water-filled or formerly water-filled ditch enclosing a raised platform, a defensive and residential feature characteristic of medieval settlement in border regions and areas of dispersed landholding. Such moats typically date from the 12th to 16th centuries and served both practical and symbolic purposes, marking the status and security of their occupants.
The site lies upon Pridoli bedrock, a formation of mudstone, siltstone and sandstone that would have shaped both the drainage patterns of the moat and the building materials available to medieval occupants. The soft geology of the Pridoli succession, whilst workable for extracting the ditch itself, presented constraints for substantial stone construction, likely resulting in timber-framed buildings within the enclosure now lost to time.
The survival of this moated enclosure in the Welsh landscape reflects the medieval settlement pattern and social organisation of the region. The site remains significant as physical evidence of domestic and defensive architecture during a formative period of Welsh and borderland history, when such elevated, moated homesteads represented an important form of settlement investment and territorial assertion.
Moated Site E of Pont-y-Bat Wood is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference BR050. View the official record →
Moated Site E of Pont-y-Bat Wood is a medieval moated site located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference BR050.
Moated Site E of Pont-y-Bat Wood 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.
Moated Site E of Pont-y-Bat Wood 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 BR050.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Crannog in Llangorse Lake (7.8 km), Brynich Aqueduct (Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal) (8 km), The Peterstone (8.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Moated Site E of Pont-y-Bat Wood'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.
Moated Site E of Pont-y-Bat Wood stands on Pridoli Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Pridoli. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.