Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut Circle W of Buarth Cyttir
Llanddona, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Unenclosed hut circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 12 July 1996
- Community
- Llanddona
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.29368, -4.14170
- SAM number
- AN128
- Cadw record number
- 3449
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of an unusually large hut circle that probably dates to the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c.800 BC - AD 400). It measures almost 7m in internal diameter and the substantial bank suggests that the hut walls survive particularly well beneath the turf cover. The interior appears undisturbed. Traces of an associated enclosure also survive.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of later prehistoric domestic construction practices. The monument retains significant archaeological potential and there is a strong probability that structural evidence has survived, together with internal and external floor surfaces. Hut circles are relatively scarce in this area, therefore adding to the significance of the monument.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Llanddona Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Pen-yr-AlltDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tan Rallt WenDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty'n Rhos CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.