Historical background
An area dominated by the farms of Taldrwst, Ty Mawr, Dol Pebin,
Gwernor and Ffridd. Dol Pebin is mentioned in the fourth branch
of the Mabinogion .
Key historic landscape characteristics
Relict medieval archaeology (settlement and agriculture),
farmhouses
The farmhouses, which are largely substantial nineteenth-century
structures, are typically situated at the break of the slope.
There is some afforestation, and a small copper mine at Gwernor,
with other trials likely as well. The principal interest of
the area, however, is the substantial, extensive and well-preserved
evidence of medieval settlement and field systems in the form
of long huts and ridge and furrow cultivation, especially on
the ridge mid-way down the area. These should be fully recorded
as they appear to be largely undisturbed by any later activity.
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