Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut Circle near Gerddi Bluog
Llanfair, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Unenclosed hut circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 26 November 1997
- Community
- Llanfair
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.85495, -4.04829
- SAM number
- ME165
- Cadw record number
- 1493
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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 Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a well preserved, large, substantially built round hut in an impressively complete form which lies on a slight shelf on the east-facing, rocky valley side of Afon Artro. The monument probably dates to the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c. 800 BC - AD 400). The hut circle is a large and substantially built example of its kind, approximately 9 metres in diameter internally with walls approximately 1.5m wide and surviving up to a height of 0.75m.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of later prehistoric domestic construction practices. The monument 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
- Barn (3) at Gerddi BluogAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Barn (1) at Gerddi BluogAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Barn (2) at Gerrdi BluogAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Gerddi BluogRecreationalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.