Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Unenclosed Hut Circle Settlement at Bryn Derw
Llanfrothen, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llanfrothen, Gwynedd, recorded as Hut Circle Settlement (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Hut Circle Settlement
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 27 July 1998
- Community
- Llanfrothen
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.96481, -4.05233
- SAM number
- ME178
- Cadw record number
- 1529
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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 monument comprises a small unenclosed hut circle settlement of the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c. 800 BC - AD 400). The site consists of four well-preserved and possibly contemporary hut circles, which are the foundations of round houses. The remains of the huts are all similar, stony banks spread to c.2.5m wide and surviving up to 0.6m high, they measure between 5m and 7m in diameter overall.
The site lies on a natural SE-facing shelf, close to a small stream, below a narrow ridge at the S side of Cwm Croesor. The huts lie close together along the contour and a track runs along the valley and between the huts.
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, including surviving internal and external floor levels.
The scheduled areas comprise the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.