Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut Circle at Gellfawr
Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Unenclosed hut circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 13 July 1998
- Community
- Barmouth
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.73103, -4.04654
- SAM number
- ME179
- Cadw record number
- 1530
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 Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the well preserved remains of a single isolated hut circle that probably dates to the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c. 800 BC - AD 400). Also present is a small rectangular structure, either an animal pen or ancillary building, and some traces of an early field system.
The site is important as a fine example of a single hut, further enhanced by the presence of the secondary building and remnants of the early field system. 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
- Catholic Church of St Tudwal including attached presbyteryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- St John's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church HallRecreationalunder 1 mi
- St Anne HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.