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Two Platform Houses 1600m SE of Blaen-Nant Farm is a medieval platform house situated in South Wales. The monument comprises two terraced platforms cut into the hillside, representing the foundations of domestic structures typical of rural medieval settlement in upland Wales. Such platform houses were built by levelling sloping ground to create habitable surfaces, a practical response to the steep terrain of the Welsh uplands and an efficient use of local stone resources.
The site lies on bedrock of the South Wales Upper Coal Measures Formation, comprising mudstone, siltstone and sandstone interspersed with coal seams, ironstone and ferricrete. This geology would have shaped both the construction methods available to medieval inhabitants and the wider landscape economy of the area. The platforms themselves follow the natural contours of the slope, with building materials sourced from the immediately surrounding ground.
The monument is protected by Cadw under reference GM326. The two platforms suggest either successive occupation phases or the accommodation of multiple household units during the medieval period. Such remains are typical of the dispersed settlement pattern characteristic of medieval upland Wales, where farming communities adapted their dwellings to challenging topography far from nucleated villages common to lowland regions.
Two Platform Houses 1600m SE of Blaen-Nant Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference GM326. View the official record →
Two Platform Houses 1600m SE of Blaen-Nant Farm is a medieval platform house situated in South Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference GM326.
Two Platform Houses 1600m SE of Blaen-Nant Farm dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a platform house. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Two Platform Houses 1600m SE of Blaen-Nant Farm 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 GM326.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ynysmaerdy Railway Incline (7.8 km), Mynydd y Gaer (Lower) Camp (8.3 km), Deserted Rural Settlement North of Foel Fynyddau (8.4 km).
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Two Platform Houses 1600m SE of Blaen-Nant Farm stands on South Wales Upper Coal Measures Formation, bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.