![Banc Bwlch Roser](webphotos/bancbwlchroser.jpg)
BANC BWLCH ROSER
GRID REFERENCE: SN 700864
AREA IN HECTARES: 123.2
Historic Background
The history of this block of upland is unknown. It was
not enclosed until after 1840, and was therefore probably considered Crown
land. Post 1840 saw the division of this area into large enclosures and
the foundation of at least two farmsteads, which are now deserted.
Description and essential historic landscape
components
Banc Bwlch Roser is characterised by craggy hills and
ridges lying between high upland to the east and lower-lying enclosed
land to the west. This area achieves a height of over 320m, with lower
slopes dropping down to 220m. It is a treeless landscape that has been
divided into large enclosures by earth banks. These are now largely redundant
and a few wire fences provide stock-proof boundaries. Improved grazing
dominates, though there is rougher ground on steep slopes, and some peaty
and rushy hollows are present. Traces of metal mining levels lie on south-facing
slopes. The two deserted farms in this area have not been examined in
the field.
Recorded archaeology includes a possible standing stone
and a possible ring barrow, both of Bronze Age date.
This is a distinct area; acting as a buffer zone between
open moorland to the east and lower lying enclosed land to the west. The
boundaries between this area and the valleys to the north and south are
less clear, but nevertheless are apparent on the ground.
![Banc Bwlch Roser map](webphotos/bancbwlchrosermap.jpg)
Base map reproduced from the OS map with the permission
of Ordnance Survey on behalf of The Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery
Office, © Crown Copyright 2001.
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