Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut Circle West of Merthyr Farm
Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Harlech, Gwynedd, recorded as Unenclosed hut circle (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Unenclosed hut circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 21 May 1998
- Community
- Harlech
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.86677, -4.08544
- SAM number
- ME176
- Cadw record number
- 3767
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 · 135 Harlech (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 monument comprises the well-preserved remains of a single, substantially built and unusually large hut circle, that 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 scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Primary House at Llam-y-LleidrDomesticunder 1 mi
- MilestoneTransportunder 1 mi
- Fonlief Hir Standing StonesStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Y Lasynys Fawr including Brewhouse Block and Revettment WallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.