Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Blaenrhondda settlement
Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Hut Circle Settlement
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 7 December 1936
- Community
- Treherbert
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.70534, -3.55985
- SAM number
- GM101
- Cadw record number
- 2867
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (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 the remains of a hut circle settlement dating to the prehistoric period. This well-preserved settlement is situated on a gently sloping south-facing terrace at the head of the Rhondda Valley. It comprises a number of small, stone-built sub-rectangular and sub-circular huts and platforms with associated larger irregular stock enclosures.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of later prehistoric land use, settlement and economy. It is a well preserved, relatively rare and little understood example of upland settlement. Furthermore, the site retains great archaeological potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric stock rearing practices in the upland zone, whether as permanent settlement, regular transhumance, or intermittent opportunistic expansion.
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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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.