Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut Circle East of Cymerau Uchaf (also known as Hut Circle at Hen Blas)
Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, recorded as Unenclosed hut circle (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Unenclosed hut circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 4 March 1998
- Welsh name
- Cylch Cwt i'r dwyrain o Gymerau Uchaf (a elwir hefyd yn Gylch Cwt yn Hen Blas)
- Community
- Ffestiniog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.97230, -3.94127
- SAM number
- ME172
- Cadw record number
- 1511
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 · 119 Snowdon (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 site is a single, large, substantially built hut circle of the Romano-British period. It lies on the lee side of a small promontory ridge which overlooks the Goedol Valley.
The hut circle is approximately 12m in diameter internally and 17m to 20m overall with walling surviving up to 1.5m high. The entrance appears to be to the SE.
This is an unusually large, well preserved and substantially built round hut. Partial excavation has proved the site to be archaeologically rich with well preserved structural features and undisturbed internal floor levels. Archaeological finds have shown the site to be of Romano-British date and suggest that it could have been of high status. Much of the hut remains untouched by excavation giving the site a high potential for research as well as being a good example of its type.
The scheduled area consists of a circle of 28m diameter, centred on the hut.
Nearby in the register
- Pengwern Old HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bwlch-IocynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pont CymmerauTransportunder 1 mi
- Ty-Newydd-y-FynnonDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.