PLAS NEWYDD ESTATE/ KENT FARM ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

Archaeological features, deposits and historic landscape modifications that are preserved at the site that are associated with the nineteenth and early-twentieth century occupation of the land for farming and residential purposes.

The site is of historical and archaeological significance at a local level.

Historical Significance: 

The site is historically significant as it: 

- Demonstrates a key phase of the pastoral and agricultural history of the local area during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries (i.e., is associated with the mid-nineteenth century establishment of farming estates and the subsequent subdivision of large scale estates into smaller mixed-use farming properties). Specifically, the site is associated with the establishment of a substantial residence and associated complex of farm building owned and occupied by: J. H Spencer as the 'Plas Newydd Estate' from c.1846 to 1856; and the subsequent continued occupation of the land for farming and residential purposes as part of ‘Kent Farm’ by a series of land owners including members of the Payne and Coyne families until c.1930. 

Archaeological Significance: 

The site has archaeological significance for: 

- Its potential to contain historical archaeological features, deposits and artefacts associated with the nineteenth and early-twentieth century occupation of the land for farming and residential purposes. 

- Archaeological and landscape features potentially preserved at the site represent a relatively small part of an extensive agricultural landscape – incorporating numerous large- and small-scale farming properties and complexes of dry stone walls – that characterised the area during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.