Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut Circle Settlement at Pen-y-Caerau
Buan, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Unenclosed hut circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 6 January 1998
- Community
- Buan
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.87955, -4.54261
- SAM number
- CN271
- Cadw record number
- 1505
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (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 the well-preserved remains of an unenclosed nucleated hut circle settlement comprising five stone walled round huts. The monument probably dates to the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c. 800 BC - AD 400).
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 archaeological significance of the site is also enhanced by the presence of other contemporary settlements 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
- Enclosed Hut Group South of PenbodlasEnclosed hut circle settlementunder 1 mi
- Garn Saethon Defended SettlementEnclosure - Defensiveunder 1 mi
- Carn Fadryn CampHillfortunder 1 mi
- Bwlch GroesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.