Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut circle settlement near Oerddwr Uchaf
Beddgelert, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Beddgelert, Gwynedd, recorded as Hut Circle Settlement (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Hut Circle Settlement
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 21 January 1997
- Community
- Beddgelert
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.99315, -4.11119
- SAM number
- CN246
- Cadw record number
- 3494
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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 an especially well preserved isolated hut circle on a relatively level area beneath the eastern flanks of Moel Hebog. The hut dates to the Iron Age or Romano British periods (c. 800 BC - AD 400). It is substantially built, with a wall including large upright stones, and has a small attached enclosure, defined by a line of boulders.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric domestic life and social organisation. The remote location has ensured that it has not been disturbed and therefore retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of structural evidence and associated archaeological features and deposits. The possible association with a number of other related types of site in the locality give the monument group significance for our understanding of the wider settlement pattern at this time.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Oerddwr-UchafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pen y Gaer CampHillfortunder 1 mi
- Hut circle settlement above Afon GochHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
- Oerddwr-IsafDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.