Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Enclosed Hut Circle Settlement North of Rhedynog Felen Bach
Llanwnda, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llanwnda, Gwynedd, recorded as Enclosed hut circle settlement (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Enclosed hut circle settlement
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 27 February 1998
- Community
- Llanwnda
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.09538, -4.29310
- SAM number
- CN278
- Cadw record number
- 1512
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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 the remains of a compact enclosed hut-circle settlement, which probably dates from the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c.800 BC - AD 400). The site comprises the foundations of three hut-circles, with fragments of associated banks, and the partial remains of an enclosure which probably originally encompassed the entire settlement.
The site represents an unusual survival of a prehistoric domestic settlement in an area which has been subject to relatively intensive agricultural improvement and where a lack of building stone has resulted in construction from less permanent materials. The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric settlement practices. It is an important relic of the prehistoric landscape and retains significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of environmental and structural evidence, including preserved internal and external floor levels. Waterlogging on the site suggests the possibility of surviving organic materials. The importance of this site is further increased by the presence of remains of a similar settlement 100m to the west (CN212) with which it could have been contemporary, or even connected.
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 East of Dinas-y-PrifEnclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Dinas y Prif CampEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Ty-henDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bothy and Pigsties at Ty-henAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.