Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut Circles NE of Garreg Lefain
Llanrug, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Unenclosed hut circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 6 September 1995
- Community
- Llanrug
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.13169, -4.17674
- SAM number
- CN231
- Cadw record number
- 1410
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 two well-preserved, stone-built hut circles that probably date to the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c. 800 BC - AD 400). They lie, about 70m apart, by the side of a small stream on a gentle north-facing slope on the north side of Garreg Lefain above Bwlch.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of later prehistoric domestic construction practices. The huts survive well in undisturbed upland heather pasture and retain significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability that structural evidence has survived, together with internal and external floor surfaces. The monument is a good example of the scattered, unenclosed type of hut settlement and also has notable group value in view of similar and related features in the vicinity.
The scheduled areas comprise the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Parc y Gleision Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Carreg Lefain CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Hut Group, Near Galltycelyn, S of Cwm-y-GloUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Hut and Enclosure Near Mur-MochUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.