Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cefn Mawr Hut Group
Llanddeiniolen, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Hut Circle Settlement
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 17 October 1978
- Community
- Llanddeiniolen
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.16390, -4.19538
- SAM number
- CN200
- Cadw record number
- 183
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (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 several hut circles, the foundations of round houses probably dating to the Bronze Age or Iron Age (c.2300 BC - AD 74). The site is very wet in places and contains various remains of walling and huts. There are four readily identifiable huts with diameters of 10 m, 6 m, 6m and 8m.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric domestic life and social organisation. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of structural evidence and associated archaeological features and deposits. There is also the potential for preserved environmental evidence.
A patchwork of small fields, some of which could conceivably have their origins in prehistory exists immediately to the southeast of the site and is the most important component of the monument’s setting.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Tyddyn-y-berthDomesticunder 1 mi
- MilestoneTransportunder 1 mi
- Cae Metta Hut GroupEnclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Bridge over the Afon Seiont (partly in Llanrug community)Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.