This important South-Wales historic landscape has been placed on the national register through professional archaeological consensus and represents an increasingly rare survival of an area of high upland moor, rich in a diverse and thematic archaeological resource of many periods and types, showing a high degree of cultural interest and continuity. However, the Common is actively under threat from a wide variety of agencies, both public and private, and this is unfortunately occurring at a time when there is not a full understanding of the value and condition of the archaeological resource, particularly in landscape terms.Therefore, it is both opportune and welcome that this project has been instigated, commissioned and funded by Cadw: Welsh Historic Monuments as part of a wider pan-Wales initiative. It is hoped that this report will provide the catalyst for the urgent consideration of the future conservation of Gelligaer Common.
