Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut Circle Settlement at Ffos Coetmor
Bethesda, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Unenclosed hut circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 12 December 1997
- Community
- Bethesda
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.18543, -4.05272
- SAM number
- CN263
- Cadw record number
- 1500
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (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 the remains of a well preserved compact hut circle settlement that probably dates to the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c.800 BC - AD 400). The site consists of two stone-built circular huts and an associated oval enclosure or yard. A variety of structural elements survive.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of later prehistoric domestic construction practices. The monument retains significant archaeological potential and there is a strong probability that structural evidence has survived, together with internal and external floor surfaces.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Moel Faban cairn cemeteryRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Fortified Hut Settlement above RachubEnclosed hut circle settlementunder 1 mi
- 18 Penybryn RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- Christ ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.