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RCAHM Wales Uplands Initiative – <strong>Beacon</strong> <strong>Hill</strong>Figure 9. Bank of a small field (nprn 244044) on the left and, on the right, a long fieldbank (nprn 244045) that might have defined the boundary of a sheep walk.Later boundaries are in the form of boundary stones which, given their rough masonrycharacter, are probably of the mid nineteenth century or later (figure 10). A group offive stones forms an arc around the head of Lawn Brook (nprn 244169, 244172,244217, 244221, 244244). Another two boundary markers on Warren <strong>Hill</strong> (nprn244131, 244132) are on the north side of the field systems and of the ‘Warren SheepWalk’ mentioned above.Figure 10. Two nineteenth-century boundary stones on <strong>Beacon</strong> <strong>Hill</strong> (nprn 244217,244224).Intakes from the common are well preserved (figure 11). They had begun by theseventeenth century, evidence for which is found in a petition of 1703 by localfreeholders to allow cottagers equal rights as freeholders in the parish: DavidEdwards, a poor man of the parish, had built a cottage on the common in the 1670s,which was described as one of many such encroachments (Howse 1955, 33).Surviving examples of intakes have the appearance of islands on the common and area familiar feature of Welsh uplands, most of which were abandoned in the latenineteenth or early twentieth centuries, exceptions being Golden Grove (excluded11
RCAHM Wales Uplands Initiative – <strong>Beacon</strong> <strong>Hill</strong>from the survey area) and Cefn Pawl. The Tithe surveys indicate that the enclosureswere a combination of meadow, pasture and arable.Figure 11. Wern y geiniog farmstead (nprn 244400), probably established in theseventeenth century.There is nothing that could be interpreted as a ty unnos. However, the stone shells andstone foundations that survive on the hills may not be the original dwellings, and maynot therefore be contemporary with the enclosures they stand in. It has been arguedthat homesteads of the early-modern period can were sited in the middle of theirassociated enclosures, on the basis that the area of enclosure was originally small andwas extended outwards progressively (Suggett 2005, 256). This arrangement can beseen in <strong>Beacon</strong> <strong>Hill</strong> farmsteads such as Wern y geiniog, Black Mountain Cottage,Cefn Pawl (figure 12), Middle and Lower Cwm Iago (nprn 244400, 244401, 244398,244402, 244403)..Figure 12. Cefn Pawl (nprn 303536).12
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