Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut Circle Settlement North-East of Moel-y-Gerddi
Llanfair, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Unenclosed hut circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 12 December 1997
- Community
- Llanfair
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.86793, -4.03652
- SAM number
- ME166
- Cadw record number
- 1494
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 Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the well preserved remains of a compact, unenclosed settlement consisting of a group of at least five, possibly seven round huts with a contemporary field system marked by lengths of curvilinear walls. The monument probably dates to the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c.800 BC - AD 400).
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 site also has potential for surviving environmental evidence.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Ffridd Fron Kerb CairnKerb Cairnunder 1 mi
- Hut Circle North-East of Moel GoedogUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Settlement 500m SE of Moel GoedogHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
- Field Barn at Gerddi BluogNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.