Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Unenclosed Hut Circle Settlement East of Garth-y-Foel
Llanfrothen, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Unenclosed hut circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 9 January 1998
- Community
- Llanfrothen
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.97809, -4.04833
- SAM number
- ME170
- Cadw record number
- 1508
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.
The monument comprises a well-preserved example of an unenclosed round hut settlement that probably dates to the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c.800 BC - AD 400). The settlement consists of three closely grouped huts set near the banks of the Afon Croesor, and a fourth isolated hut above the main group on a higher shelf. Also present are a number of associated enclosures or yards. The huts have been constructed using different methods and two are examples of rare and unusual sub-circular huts. It is possible that the settlement could have been occupied over a long period of time.
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
- Boulder-built Boundary Walls above the Upper Drive at ParcGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Barn at ParcAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- L-shaped Agricultural Range at ParcAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- ParcDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.