Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Stackpole Warren Hut Group
Stackpole and Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Stackpole and Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire, recorded as Unenclosed hut circle (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Unenclosed hut circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 3 December 1962
- Community
- Stackpole and Castlemartin
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.61538, -4.92079
- SAM number
- PE367
- Cadw record number
- 2076
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 245 Pembroke (Hills) (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 enclosure complex that occupies a north-facing promontory and probably dates to the Iron Age or Romano-British period (c. 800 BC - AD 400). The remains consist of a round hut of about 6m in diameter together with an adjoining enclosure and field boundaries. The walls consist of a scatter of small stones up to 0.4m in height. The enclosure adjoining the hut is roughly circular and measures c 15m in diameter, examination of this showed that it had been constructed over an earlier shell-midden. To the east of the site there are two circular hollows c 3.6m across suggesting small huts. The site has produced much worked flint, along with iron-slag & possibly spindlewhorls. It is suggested the complex can be linked to a wider pattern of relict field enclosures in the surrounding landscape.
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
- Stackpole Warren Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Fishpond CampPromontory Fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Eight-Arch BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Manor HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.