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Romano-British Farmstead, Dinas Powys Common is a Roman settlement located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference GM431. The site represents one of the dispersed agricultural establishments that sustained the Romano-British economy beyond major military and urban centres during the occupation of Britain. Such farmsteads typically comprised domestic and working buildings arranged around open yards, with associated field systems and stock enclosures that would have supplied both local populations and military garrisons.
The farmstead is situated on Triassic bedrock comprising interbedded sandstone and conglomerate, geology that would have offered reasonably well-drained land suitable for cultivation and settlement. This underlying solid geology influenced both the siting of the Roman establishment and the survival conditions of archaeological deposits, with sandstone particularly preserving organic remains that might otherwise decompose in damper substrates.
The settlement exemplifies the integration of Roman settlers and indigenous communities into the agricultural landscape of Wales during the Roman period. Such farmsteads operated within broader networks of trade, taxation and resource extraction that characterised Roman Britain, their modest structures and scattered distribution across the countryside contrasting sharply with the monumental architecture of forts and towns that dominate the archaeological record of this era.
Romano-British Farmstead, Dinas Powys Common is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference GM431. View the official record →
Romano-British Farmstead, Dinas Powys Common is a Roman settlement located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference GM431.
Romano-British Farmstead, Dinas Powys Common dates from the roman period, and is classified as a settlement. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Romano-British Farmstead, Dinas Powys Common 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 GM431.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Middleton Moated Site (2.3 km), Round Barrow 612m N of Bendrick Rock (4 km), St Mary's Well Bay Pillbox (4.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Romano-British Farmstead, Dinas Powys Common'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.
Romano-British Farmstead, Dinas Powys Common stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.