Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hut Circle North-East of Moel Goedog
Talsarnau, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Unenclosed hut circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 22 July 1998
- Community
- Talsarnau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.87433, -4.05283
- SAM number
- ME183
- Cadw record number
- 1534
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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 remains of a single, isolated hut circle, probably dating to the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c. 800 BC - AD 400), with two associated paddocks or enclosures. This is a complete and well preserved hut which has been constructed in an unusual manner employing vertically set slab pillars for the outside wall-face. There is evidence for later re-use in the form of an inserted structure or second hut.
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
- Ffridd Fedw Round Hut, Enclosure, Ancient Fields and Kerb CairnKerb Cairnunder 1 mi
- Tyddyn Sion Wyn Ring CairnRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Moel Goedog CampHillfortunder 1 mi
- Settlement 500m SE of Moel GoedogHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.