Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut Group North-East of Carnguwch Fawr
Pistyll, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Hut group
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 12 October 1998
- Community
- Pistyll
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.95819, -4.41294
- SAM number
- CN256
- Cadw record number
- 1492
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "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).
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 at least five circular huts standing on levelled terraces, three of which open onto a single courtyard. It probably dates to the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c. 800 BC - AD 400). This nucleated settlement stands on the south-east facing slopes of Mynydd Carnguwch overlooking the upper reaches of the Afon Erch in an area of generally improved grazing.
Three of the huts range in size from 3.5m to 7m diameter internally, their walls retain some internal and external facing and seem to have been of laid masonry. The other huts are suggested by levelled platforms terraced into the slope at the NW, the largest, at the S extent of the group, is oval in plan and measures approximately 10m N-S by 13m E-W.
The monument has an impressive diversity of surviving structural features and 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 scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Carnguwch CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Field Cowhouse [beudy] at Glasfryn-bachAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Standing Stone NW of TrallwynStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Church of St BeunoReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.