Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mynnydd Caregog Hut Circle
Newport, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Unenclosed hut circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Newport
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.99251, -4.85373
- SAM number
- PE310
- Cadw record number
- 461
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 the remains of an isolated hut circle that probably dates to the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c. 800 BC - AD 400). Mynydd Caregog Hut Circle measures 60ft in diameter from crest to crest with a bank 12ft wide and 2ft high. There is the suggestion of an external ditch.
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
- Bedd Morris Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Carn Ffoi Prehistoric SettlementHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
- The Hermitage at Ffald y Brenin Christian Retreat CentreNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Huts on Mynydd MelynUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.