Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut Circle Settlement at Crawcwellt South
Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Hut Circle Settlement
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 22 July 1998
- Community
- Trawsfynydd
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.84712, -3.93118
- SAM number
- ME171
- Cadw record number
- 883
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 consists of a dispersed hut circle settlement, probably dating to the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c. 800 BC - AD 400). The settlement comprises a number of hut circles, the foundations of round houses, set within the remnants of an early field system. The huts vary in size and, though obscured by peat formation, are generally well-preserved. Clearance cairns are also present and there is a possibility that some of the cairns may have had a funerary use. The site also has wider significance as part of a large prehistoric landscape which includes another settlement at Crawcwellt North, 1.5km to the north-west, where excavations have produced evidence for iron working.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric domestic life and social organisation. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of structural evidence and associated archaeological features and deposits. The archaeological potential of the site is further enhanced by the features being preserved in peat which usually provides good conditions for preservation of organic material.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Pont-y-GribleTransportunder 1 mi
- Tyddyn-mawr Farmhouse and attached barnsDomestic1 mi
- Milepost at BronaberTransport2 mi
- Multi-period Settlement Remains at Cae Merddyn, S of Bwlch-y-FforddEnclosed hut circle settlement2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.