Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Llyn Gafr Hut Circle
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Hut Circle Settlement
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 20 February 2003
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.70818, -3.90891
- SAM number
- ME218
- Cadw record number
- 3945
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 Monument.
The monument comprises a well-preserved and largely intact example of a prehistoric hut circle, the foundations of a round house, probably dating to the Early Bronze Age (2000-1500 BC) or to the Iron Age (c. 700 BC-AD 43). The monument consists of a circular bank of heather-covered stones some 10m in external diameter, 2m wide and 1m high, with a well-defined entrance at the south-east. The site sits on a platform cut into a slight promontory overlooking the southern margins of Llyn Gafr on the north face of Cadair Idris.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric domestic life and social organisation. It forms an important element in a wider prehistoric upland landscape. The monument 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 monument.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Llyn Gafr Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Pont Ty-NantTransport1 mi
- Water Wheel at DyffrydanIndustrial1 mi
- DyffrydanDomestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.