Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut Circle and Rectangular Hut North of Wern Y Pandy
Aber, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Aber, Gwynedd, recorded as Unenclosed hut circle (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Unenclosed hut circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 29 January 1998
- Community
- Aber
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.22690, -3.98554
- SAM number
- CN286
- Cadw record number
- 1515
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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 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (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 two well preserved huts, set close together but of different types, one a hut circle of later prehistoric or Romano-British type, the other a rectangular hut, perhaps of early medieval date. The hut circle has the unusual feature of an outer wall or bank which could represent the remains of an earlier, larger house on the same spot. Together the huts indicate long term, multi-phased occupation of the site.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of later prehistoric and perhaps early medieval 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
- Hut Group W of Foel DduarthEnclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Carnedd y Saeson & Neighbouring Cairns NW of Foel DduarthCairnfieldunder 1 mi
- Hut Group 180m NW of Hafod-y-GelynEnclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Enclosed Hut Circle Settlement South-East of Bod SilinEnclosed hut circle settlementunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.