Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wernlas hut circle
Hirwaun, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Hut Circle Settlement
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 6 January 2004
- Community
- Hirwaun
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.77495, -3.50223
- SAM number
- GM562
- Cadw record number
- 4005
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 or round house probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) or Iron Age (c.800 BC - early 1st millennium AD). It is situated within enclosed woodland about 400m to the south-south-west of Wernlas Farm, on a north-facing slope above the stream of Cwm Cadlan. The hut circle is roughly oval on plan and measures 9.5m from east-south-east to west-south-west by 8.5m transversely within a drystone rubble bank at least 1.5m in thickness and 0.4m in height. The platform upon which the hut circle is situated is terraced out on the downslope north-west side, where the drystone rubble bank is much tumbled and spread, measuring up to 4m in thickness. There is an indication of the bank constricting inwards on the north and west before continuing towards the north-west and forming a hooked porch. There is no indication of an internal entrance, although the hooked porch is open with a large gap on the north-west and there is a smaller gap in the bank on the west.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric settlement, economy and social organisation. Its importance is further enhanced as a result of the exceptionally well preserved nature of the site.
The area scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Round Cairn North of Mynydd-y-GlogRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Wernlas ring cairn and cairnfieldRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Pant Sychbant Medieval HamletDeserted Rural Settlementunder 1 mi
- Round Cairn and Ring Cairn South of Twyn-y-GlogRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.