Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut Circles and Enclosure NW of Mount Pleasant
Pistyll, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Pistyll, Gwynedd, recorded as Hut Circle Settlement (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Hut Circle Settlement
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 15 August 1997
- Community
- Pistyll
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.97043, -4.45684
- SAM number
- CN249
- Cadw record number
- 3729
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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 · 118 Nevin (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 a small group of round huts with an associated paddock, dating from the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c. 800 BC - AD 400). The site includes at least 5 undisturbed hut circles with additional huts now lying beneath more recent sheepfolds. The enclosure wall links two areas of outcropping rock forming a paddock area which includes all but one of the round huts.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric domestic life and social organisation. The site is of particular value as a relatively complete and undisturbed example of a small, scattered hut circle settlement. It has added interest because of the variety of related types of structure of other periods within the same area. The monument retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of structural evidence and associated archaeological features and deposits.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Capel Seilo, with forecourt wallsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Trem-y-mor, with associated garden walls and walled pathEducationunder 1 mi
- Trem-y-mynydd, with associated front wallsEducationunder 1 mi
- Y Plas, with associated garden and driveway wallsEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.