Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut Circle Settlement North of Bryn Mair
Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, recorded as Hut Circle Settlement (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Hut Circle Settlement
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 17 December 1997
- Community
- Betws Garmon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.10612, -4.21863
- SAM number
- CN261
- Cadw record number
- 1497
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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)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 105 Carnarvon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (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 a well-preserved nucleated settlement of four hut circles, the foundations of round houses probably dating to the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c.800 BC - AD 400), along with some contemporary enclosures and fields. The huts vary in size and are of variable construction. They have a variety of surviving structural features, including an unusual funnel-shaped entrance porch associated with the largest hut. The monument stands on a level terrace, set on gentle north-facing slopes.
The hut group was not a defensive site, the significant views would have been medium and short over the fields farmed from the settlement, the majority of which would probably have been on the lower land to the north.
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, including surviving internal and external floor levels. The importance of the site is enhanced by the presence of other contemporary settlements and extensive field systems within the vicinity.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Hut Circle Settlement and Field System South-East of ErwEnclosed hut circle settlementunder 1 mi
- ErwDomesticunder 1 mi
- Farmbuildings at ErwAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Tan-y-braichDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.