Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut Circles at Braich y Cornel
Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Unenclosed hut circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 18 February 1999
- Community
- Dolbenmaen
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.98148, -4.15989
- SAM number
- CN275
- Cadw record number
- 1506
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 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 Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the well preserved stone foundations of two hut circles that probably date 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, which has been little disturbed, retains significant archaeological potential and there is a strong probability that structural evidence has survived, together with internal and external floor surfaces. The archaeological importance of the huts is enhanced by the presence of another, possibly contemporary settlement approximately 300m to the south-east.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Braich y Cornel Hut Circle Settlement and Field SystemHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
- Cae-Bach Hut Circle SettlementHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
- Treforys Deserted Quarry SettlementSettlementunder 1 mi
- Hut Circle Settlement East of Cefn BiforUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.