Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Carn Ffoi Prehistoric Settlement
Newport, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Hut Circle Settlement
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Newport
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.00413, -4.84692
- SAM number
- PE052
- Cadw record number
- 2664
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises several hut circles, the foundations of round houses probably dating to the Bronze Age or Iron Age (c.2300 BC - AD 74) which lie on gently sloping ground to the west of Carn Ffoi Camp hillfort. At least four hut circles are visible as circular stone structures averaging 4-5m in diameter and c. 0.3m high. The huts lie within a system of linear banks defining small enclosures and fields likely to have been contemporary with the settlement. The use of the fields for cultivation is suggested by a number of small stone clearance cairns set close to the banks.
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.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Carn Ffoi CampHillfortunder 1 mi
- The PoundAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- PenfeidirDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuildings to NE.of PenfiedirAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.