Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut circle settlement above Afon Goch
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)
- 52.99408, -4.10527
- SAM number
- CN247
- Cadw record number
- 1474
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 Monument.
The monument comprises two very similar and unusually well-preserved huts dating from the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c. 800 BC - AD 400). They lie on a level saddle below a low hill in an area of upland pasture between the flanks of Moel Hebog and the Aberglaslyn pass.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric domestic life and social organisation. The importance of this small settlement lies in its completeness and the lack of any later use or disturbance. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of structural evidence and associated archaeological features and deposits. The monument also has group value for its locational association with similar sites nearby.
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
- Hut circle settlement near Oerddwr UchafHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
- Pen y Gaer CampHillfortunder 1 mi
- Bridge House (aka Ty Bont)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.