Llanfair, Possible Chapel Site, Llanfair Farm, Llandysul

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NPRN400351
Map ReferenceSN44SW
Grid ReferenceSN4318040929
Unitary (Local) AuthorityCeredigion
Old CountyCardiganshire
CommunityLlandysul
Type Of SiteCHAPEL
PeriodUnknown
Description
This possible chapel site is located at Llanfair Farm, on a low terrace above the flood plain of the River Teifi. Recent geophysical survey and trenching indicate that a substancial building, within an earthwork enclosure, stood on the site. It has been suggested that the existing earthwork enclosure made use of an earlier, prehistoric enclosure (NPRN 402861). The current earthwork measures some 60m across, and is defined by a bank and ditch with a west-facing entrance (indicative of a church site). Possible fragments of the supposed chapel are noted as having been put together in the nineteenth century to preserve its memory.

Sources include:
Archaeology in Wales 24 (1984), 23.
Cardiganshire County History, 249.
Survey of Defended Enclosures in Ceredigion, 2006, Cambria Archaeology Report No2006/20.

John Wiles 14/11/2006