Scheduled monuments (also known as scheduled ancient monuments, or SAMs) are sites of archaeological importance with specific legal protection against damage or development.
The list of such monuments in Wales is maintained by
Cadw
(, a Welsh verbal noun meaning "keeping/preserving") is the historic environment service of the Welsh Government and part of the Tourism and Culture group. works to protect the historic buildings and structures, the landscapes and heritage ...
: Welsh Historic Monuments, an executive agency within the Welsh National Assembly.
[What is Scheduling?]
booklet produced by Cadw: Welsh Historic Monuments, 2002. Accessed 19 May 2013 For an archaeological site in Wales to be scheduled it must be a site of national importance, being a site that characterises a period or category in Welsh history, with consideration given to rarity, good documentation, group value, survival/condition, fragility/vulnerability, diversity and potential.
[ In addition to the scheduling information that Cadw maintains, there are much larger pools of information on scheduled and other archaeological and historic sites, buildings and landscapes of Wales held by the and the four Welsh Archaeological Trusts.
On the list produced by Cadw dated May 2012,][Cadw do not publish the list, but supply it as a spreadsheet, or other electronic formats, on request, as indicated a]
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/ref> there were 4,186 scheduled monuments in Wales, distributed among all 22 principal areas of Wales. 39 sites cross a border between two authorities, (ridge-top cairns, bridges and aqueducts, cross dykes, tramroads) so are included in both lists. The lists below show these sites, arranged by principal areas (counties and county boroughs), and in the case of the larger counties, sub-divided to maintain a manageable number of sites per page.
Lists of scheduled monuments
* List of scheduled monuments in Blaenau Gwent (13 sites)
* List of scheduled monuments in Bridgend (59 sites)
* List of scheduled monuments in Caerphilly (46 sites)
*List of scheduled monuments in Cardiff
Cardiff is the capital and largest city in Wales. The county, which takes in a number of smaller settlements around the city, has 28 scheduled monuments. These include sites from every period of Welsh history, from the Neolithic onwards. With fou ...
(28 sites)
* Scheduled monuments in Carmarthenshire (370 sites)
:: List of prehistoric scheduled monuments in Carmarthenshire (227 sites)
:: List of Roman-to-modern scheduled monuments in Carmarthenshire (143 sites)
* Scheduled monuments in Ceredigion (264 sites)
:: List of prehistoric scheduled monuments in Ceredigion (163 sites)
::List of Roman-to-modern scheduled monuments in Ceredigion
Ceredigion is a large rural county in West Wales. It has a long coastline of Cardigan Bay to the west and the remote moorland of the Cambrian Mountains in the east, with the mountainous terrain of Plynlimon in the northeast. Ceredigion has a total ...
(101 sites)
* List of scheduled monuments in Conwy (161 sites)
* List of scheduled monuments in Denbighshire (168 sites)
*List of scheduled monuments in Flintshire
The county of Flintshire is on the north-east coast of Wales, and two ancient border earthworks run through the length of the county. There are 131 scheduled monuments in the post-1996 county of Flintshire. (The Historic counties of Wales, histori ...
(131 sites)
* Scheduled monuments in Gwynedd (501 sites)
:: List of prehistoric scheduled monuments in Gwynedd (former Caernarvonshire) (194 sites)
:: List of prehistoric scheduled monuments in Gwynedd (former Merionethshire) (171 sites)
:: List of Roman-to-modern scheduled monuments in Gwynedd (136 sites)
* List of scheduled monuments in Isle of Anglesey (143 sites)
* List of scheduled monuments in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough
Merthyr Tydfil County Borough has 43 scheduled monuments. The prehistoric scheduled sites include many burial cairns and several defensive enclosures. The Roman period is represented by a Roman Road. The medieval periods include two inscribed sto ...
(42 sites)
* List of scheduled monuments in Monmouthshire
Monmouthshire has 200 scheduled monuments. The 46 prehistoric scheduled sites include burial sites, enclosures and 16 hill forts. Ten sites date from the Roman Britain, Roman period, including four Roman Villa, villas. There are four early Christ ...
(200 sites)
* List of scheduled monuments in Neath Port Talbot (94 sites)
* List of scheduled monuments in Newport (71 sites)
* Scheduled monuments in Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire is the fifth-largest county in Wales, but has more scheduled monuments (526) than any except Powys. This gives it an extremely high density of monuments, with 33.4 per 100 km2. (Only the tiny county boroughs of Newport and ...
(528 sites)
:: (233 sites)
::List of prehistoric scheduled monuments in south Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire is only the fifth-largest county in Wales, but contains the second largest number of scheduled monuments (526) after Powys. This gives it an extremely high density of monuments, with 33.4 per 100km2. (Only the tiny county boroughs ...
(113 sites)
::List of Roman-to-modern scheduled monuments in Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire is the fifth-largest county in Wales, but has more scheduled monuments (526) than any other local authority area except Powys. This gives it an extremely high density of monuments, with 33.4 per 100km2. (Only the urban authority ...
(182 sites)
* Scheduled monuments in Powys
Powys is the largest administrative county in Wales. With over a quarter of Wales's land area, covering much of the eastern half of the country, it is a county of remote uplands, low population and no coastline. It was created in more or less it ...
(950 sites)
:: List of prehistoric scheduled monuments in Powys (Montgomeryshire) (190 sites)
:: List of Roman-to-modern scheduled monuments in Powys (Montgomeryshire) (112 sites)
:: List of prehistoric scheduled monuments in Powys (Radnorshire) (139 sites)
:: List of Roman-to-modern scheduled monuments in Powys (Radnorshire) (119 sites)
:: (254 sites)
:: List of Roman-to-modern scheduled monuments in Powys (Brecknockshire) (136 sites)
* List of scheduled monuments in Rhondda Cynon Taf (89 sites)
* List of scheduled monuments in Swansea (124 sites)
* List of scheduled monuments in Torfaen (25 sites)
* List of scheduled monuments in the Vale of Glamorgan (110 sites)
* List of scheduled monuments in Wrexham (107 sites)
See also
* List of Cadw properties
* List of hill forts in Wales
* List of Roman villas in Wales
* List of castles in Wales
* Historic houses in Wales
* List of monastic houses in Wales
* List of museums in Wales
* Listed buildings in Wales
References
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Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in ...