Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Settlement 500m SE of Moel Goedog
Llanfair, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llanfair, Gwynedd, recorded as Hut Circle Settlement (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Hut Circle Settlement
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 6 May 1992
- Community
- Llanfair
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.86879, -4.05601
- SAM number
- ME134
- Cadw record number
- 534
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 · 135 Harlech (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 Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a small settlement, dating most probably from the Iron Age or Romano-British period. The site lies on a gently sloping area of S-facing upland pasture below Moel Goedog hillfort, and is set between two ridges of outcrop, above bogland to the S.
There are two well-preserved huts c.6.75m in diameter and a further two, less well defined, c.5m in diameter. A sub-rectangular enclosure or paddock to the NE links two of the huts and there is a possible courtyard area to the SW of this, defined on the NE by a substantial stone terrace which joins one of the other huts. It appears that stone has been removed from the monument for the construction of the dry-stone walls nearby, but the archaeological potential remains.
The importance of this site lies principally in its association with the other settlement 100m to the WNW (ME133) and with the hillfort (ME059). The proximity to peat bog immediately to the S also provides potential for environmental data.
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
- Settlement 400m SE of Moel GoedogEnclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Moel Goedog CampHillfortunder 1 mi
- Hut Circle North-East of Moel GoedogUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Moel Goedog Round Cairns & Standing StonesRing Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.