Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut Settlement West of Allt Goch
Trefriw, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Unenclosed hut circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 9 February 1998
- Community
- Trefriw
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.14073, -3.88028
- SAM number
- CN291
- Cadw record number
- 1521
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 a settlement consisting of a well preserved, scattered yet linear group of huts and enclosures comprising three sub-circular and one rectangular hut with associated enclosures. The settlement probably dates to the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c. 800 BC - AD 400). The co-existence of sub-circular and rectangular huts could represent either development through time or later re-occupation.
The site has considerable archaeological importance because of the variety and range of surviving structural features and the possibility of either development through time or later re-occupation. 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
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- Pont Hafod ArthenTransportunder 1 mi
- Taliesin MonumentCommemorative1 mi
- Klondyke Lead MillLead Mine1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.