Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut Circle Settlement at Bwlch Tyddiad
Llanbedr, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Hut Circle Settlement
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 4 September 1998
- Community
- Llanbedr
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.85525, -4.00426
- SAM number
- ME182
- Cadw record number
- 1533
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 four small hut circles, the foundations of round houses, probably dating to the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c. 800 BC - AD 400). The hut circles are complete and well-preserved and loosely clustered on a natural shelf overlooking the “Roman steps” pathway. Field walls connect the huts, suggesting that they were in contemporary use.
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 undisturbed internal and external floors.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Cwm BychanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hut Circle Settlement North-East of Moel-y-GerddiUnenclosed hut circle2 mi
- Ffridd Fron Kerb CairnKerb Cairn2 mi
- Cwm-yr-afon Farmhouse with attached farm-ranges to rearNo class recorded2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.