Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut Circle West of Saith Maen
Tawe-Uchaf, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Unenclosed hut circle settlement
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 30 June 1999
- Community
- Tawe-Uchaf
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.82236, -3.70053
- SAM number
- BR256
- Cadw record number
- 866
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a hut circle that probably dates to the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c. 800 BC - AD 400). The hut circle constructed in a sheltered position at the bottom of a deep natural shake hole. It has an internal diameter of 3.2m, is bounded by well constructed coursed stone walls 0.6m wide and standing up to 0.6m in height. The hut has a well defined west facing entrance marked by two large boulders.
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.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Saith MaenStone Alignmentunder 1 mi
- Cribarth Limestone Quarries and TramroadsQuarryunder 1 mi
- Front courtyard and boundary wall at Craig-y-nosDomesticunder 1 mi
- Game Larder at Craig-y-nos and attached length of kitchen garden wallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.