Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut Circle West of Pen-y-Bryn
Llanbedr, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llanbedr, Gwynedd, recorded as Unenclosed hut circle (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Unenclosed hut circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 26 September 1996
- Community
- Llanbedr
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.81732, -4.08105
- SAM number
- ME160
- Cadw record number
- 1467
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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 an isolated hut circle that probably dates to the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c.800 BC - AD 400). The walls are visible as a circular grassy bank, approximately 2m wide and 0.4m high and are unusually well preserved with some facing stones still recognisable. The hut is about 7m in internal diameter with an entrance gap approximately 1.5m wide at the south side and has been scarped into the gentle NW-facing slope. It is terraced into the slope to a depth of about 1.5m and raised on a terrace on the downslope side.
There are traces of a boulder wall c.1m wide extending south from the west side of the hut entrance. Although of different construction to the hut wall this could be the remains of some kind of porch, annexe or platform. In the immediate vicinity are also the remains of several early field boundaries, now much disturbed.
Isolated huts are relatively rare and represent an important compliment to the more widespread settlement pattern reflected by hut groups. The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of later prehistoric domestic construction practices. It retains significant archaeological potential and there is a strong probability that structural evidence has survived, together with internal and external floor surfaces.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Cowhouse at Uwchlawr-coedAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Agricultural range at Uwchlawr-coedAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Gwynfryn HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- House adjacent to Gwynfryn HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.