Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Groes Las Prehistoric Settlement & Field System
Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Enclosed hut circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 28 April 1987
- Community
- Harlech
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.84893, -4.11084
- SAM number
- ME095
- Cadw record number
- 2480
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 Monument.
This monument consists of a well-preserved prehistoric hut circle, partly covered with modern field-clearance stone, set within an irregular, curvilinear enclosure which runs around the top of a natural hollow.
The hut circle is in the bottom of the hollow and is about 9m in diameter. The larger enclosure measures about 53m NNE-SSW. To the N, S, and E are field banks which define part of a once extensive early field system associated with the enclosure.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric settlement. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. The structures themselves may be expected to contain archaeological information concerning chronology and building techniques.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Pencerrig PellafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Groes LasDomesticunder 1 mi
- Out-kitchen and pigsty at Groes LasAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Farm-buildings at Groes LasAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.