Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Foel Eryr Hut Group
Eglwyswrw, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Enclosed hut circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 4 December 1962
- Community
- Eglwyswrw
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.95214, -4.81108
- SAM number
- PE368
- Cadw record number
- 693
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (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 enclosed single hut circle, which probably dates from the first millennium BC. There is a roughly rectangular enclosure about 36ft x 42ft situated on a plateau. The wall consists of small boulders, part of the inner face exists, especially on south-east side. The entrance is in the north-east side. Huts in east and probably west corners. About 50 yards south-east of the site is a platform house measuring 40ft x 18ft.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric settlement practices. It is an important relic of the prehistoric landscape and retains significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of environmental and structural evidence, including preserved internal and external floor levels.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Foel Eryr Round CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Cerrig Lladron stone rowStone Rowunder 1 mi
- Banc Du Neolithic EnclosureEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Deserted Medieval Site at New InnDeserted Rural Settlement1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.