Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cae-Bach Hut Circle Settlement
Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd, recorded as Hut Circle Settlement (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Hut Circle Settlement
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 26 October 1999
- Community
- Dolbenmaen
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.98011, -4.16892
- SAM number
- CN313
- Cadw record number
- 3835
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 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 · 119 Snowdon (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 Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises two hut circles, the foundations of round houses, situated on the southern facing slope of Moel Hebog. The huts, which are both defined by well preserved stone walls surviving up to 0.6m in height, are of similar size and appearance and have been positioned so that they face each each other across a small yard defined by walling. The huts were probably constructed during the Iron Age period and the close proximity and physical connections between the two would suggest that they were in contemporary use. They may have originally formed part of a much larger settlement.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric domestic life and social organisation. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of structural evidence and associated archaeological features and deposits, including internal and external floor levels. Added archaeological interest is given by the distinctive paired layout.
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 Circles at Braich y CornelUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Braich y Cornel Hut Circle Settlement and Field SystemHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
- Cowhouse at Isallt-fawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Isallt-fawrDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.