Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut and Enclosure Near Mur-Moch
Llanrug, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Unenclosed hut circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 25 July 1996
- Community
- Llanrug
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.13344, -4.16401
- SAM number
- CN230
- Cadw record number
- 1415
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 the remains of a settlement that probably dates to the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c. 800 BC - AD 400). It consists of a substantial and well preserved circular hut and, close by, another probably contemporary hut or small enclosure of an unusual shape. The settlement lies on a north-east facing natural terrace amid rocky outcrops on the south side of the valley high above Llyn Padarn.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of later prehistoric domestic construction practices. The main circular hut is a particularly well preserved example and its locational association with an ancillary structure, possibly not intended for domestic use, increases the site's potential for archaeological research. There is a strong probability that structural evidence has survived, together with internal and external floor surfaces. Several other broadly contemporary settlements have been identified nearby so that this settlement has considerable group value in the wider archaeological context.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Hut Group, Near Galltycelyn, S of Cwm-y-GloUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Farmbuildings and screen wall at Llwyn CoedAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Llwyn CoedDomesticunder 1 mi
- Parc y Gleision Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.