Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Maes Coch Hut Circles
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Hut Circle Settlement
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 13 May 2003
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.72107, -3.86104
- SAM number
- ME195
- Cadw record number
- 3654
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 consists of well-preserved and largely intact circular platforms which once held prehistoric round houses. Hut I is the most northerly of the pair and comprises a circular platform, some 10m in diameter, cut into the hill slope. Hut II is sited 2m to the south-east and is formed of a bank of large boulders, 8m in diameter, with a wall of large, upright stones on the eastern side. The site sits on the north face of Cadair Idris and may date to the Early Bronze Age (2000-1500 BC) or to the Iron Age (c. 700 BC-AD 43).
The site forms an important element in a wider prehistoric upland landscape. 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 preserved prehistoric ground surfaces below the monuments and environmental remains.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Maes Coch Deserted Rural SettlementRectangular hut settlementunder 1 mi
- Bwlch Coch FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stable at Bwlch Coch FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at Dref Cerrig FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.