Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Huts and Enclosures, Cwm Llefrith
Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd, recorded as Hut Circle Settlement (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Hut Circle Settlement
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 26 March 1997
- Community
- Dolbenmaen
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.99895, -4.16211
- SAM number
- CN240
- Cadw record number
- 195
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (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 five hut circles, the foundations of round houses probably dating to the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c. 800 BC - AD 400). Three huts lie within an unusually regular sub rectangular field enclosure which may be contemporary, while the other two huts are essentially unenclosed.
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. The huts outside the enclosure are particularly well preserved. The association of the settlement with early field boundaries gives the site a special importance and, since the monument forms part of a wider ancient landscape which includes a range of broadly contemporary features, it has considerable group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Cwm Llefrith cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Huts and Enclosures above Ceunant y DdolEnclosed hut circle settlementunder 1 mi
- Treforys Deserted Quarry SettlementSettlement1 mi
- Field CowhouseAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.