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Tir Hir Medieval Platform is a medieval house platform located in Wales and protected by Cadw as a scheduled monument under reference CD184. The site preserves the levelled ground and structural remains of a dwelling occupied during the medieval period, a common form of settlement evidence across the Welsh countryside where stone or timber-framed buildings once stood.
The platform is situated upon Llandovery Rocks, an undifferentiated sequence of sandstone and conglomerate beds that formed during the Llandovery period in the Ordovician. This local bedrock, exposed in steep banks and outcrops throughout the region, would have supplied the stone available to medieval builders and would have influenced both settlement location and construction methods.
House platforms of this type are among the most abundant archaeological monuments in upland and marginal Welsh landscapes. They represent the domestic life and land use patterns of farming communities, typically dated from the medieval period through to early modern times. The preservation of Tir Hir as a scheduled monument ensures that its archaeological evidence and contribution to understanding medieval Welsh settlement and land management remain protected from damage and destruction.
Tir Hir Medieval Platform is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CD184. View the official record →
Tir Hir Medieval Platform is a medieval house platform located in Wales and protected by Cadw as a scheduled monument under reference CD184.
Tir Hir Medieval Platform 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.
Tir Hir Medieval Platform 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 CD184.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Y Garn Round Cairn (4 km), Fagwyr Las Deserted Rural Settlement (4.1 km), Bryn Cosyn Cairn Cemetery (4.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Tir Hir Medieval Platform'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.
Tir Hir Medieval Platform stands on Llandovery Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Llandovery. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.