This is a small enclosed settlement of probable later Iron Age to Romano-British date (broadly c. 100 BC – AD 400), situated in the uplands of mid-Wales near the Severn-Wye watershed in Powys. The site comprises an enclosure with associated relict field systems or cultivation terraces on its periphery, indicating a self-sufficient agropastoral farmstead rather than a nucleated settlement.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Such enclosed farmsteads form the dominant settlement type across upland mid-Wales and represent the native rural population whose territory lay between the Roman forts at Caersws and Forden Gaer (Y Gaer) and the road network linking them. The site is not individually notable but contributes to a well-attested pattern of indigenous farms that persisted, largely unchanged in material culture, through the Roman occupation.
No excavation is recorded for this specific site; it is known from earthwork survey and aerial reconnaissance, with the enclosure bank/ditch and adjacent cultivation remains (likely lynchets or plough ridges) being the principal visible features. Dating and internal layout — whether containing roundhouse platforms typical of the region — remain unconfirmed without intrusive investigation.
This is a small enclosed settlement of probable later Iron Age to Romano-British date (broadly c. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Small enclosed Iron Age or Romano-British settlement and adjacent cultivation remains, 450m north west of Cwm Farm is classified as a Roman settlement — a civilian site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
Several Roman sites lie within a short distance, including Caer-Din Ring: a small enclosed Iron Age or Romano-British settlement, an adjacent ancient field boundary, round barrow and cultivation remains (2 km), Three Roman camps NW of Brompton Mill including tumulus and section of Offa's Dyke (7.2 km), Brompton Roman fort (7.3 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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