Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cwm Brwynog Deserted Rural Settlement
Llanberis, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llanberis, Gwynedd, recorded as Deserted Rural Settlement (Medieval).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Deserted Rural Settlement
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 12 September 2000
- Community
- Llanberis
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.09012, -4.10183
- SAM number
- CN315
- Cadw record number
- 3887
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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 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (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 consists of a well-preserved example of a large, complex and possibly multi-phase upland rural settlement located in Cwm Brwynog. It is situated roughly halfway between Llanberis and the summit of Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon as the crow flies.
The site comprises the stone foundations of nine rectangular long huts, a rectangular house platform and a square shelter or pen. These are probably the surviving remains of the hafotai collectively recorded as 'Combroinok' in the 1352 Record of Caernarfon.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of medieval settlement organisation. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. Added interest is given by the survival of documentary information and the possibility that the settlement has developed through several phases of occupation and use. Large medieval settlements are rare and important survivals.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St PerisReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- TalgaeDomestic1 mi
- MilestoneTransport1 mi
- Capel RehobothReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.