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Latitude: 53.1557 / 53°9'20"N
Longitude: -4.2233 / 4°13'23"W
OS Eastings: 251433
OS Northings: 364370
OS Grid: SH514643
Mapcode National: GBR 5L.56KL
Mapcode Global: WH54D.3Y55
Entry Name: Hut Circle South of Rhyd y Galen, Pont-Rug
Scheduled Date: 20 February 1996
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 1436
Cadw Legacy ID: CN229
Schedule Class: Domestic
Category: Unenclosed hut circle
Period: Prehistoric
County: Gwynedd
Community: Llanddeiniolen
Traditional County: Caernarfonshire
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). It is about 10m in overall diameter and lies at the edge of a field of reseeded, gently sloping pasture, overlooking the Cadnant valley to the NE. It survives as a grassy bank about 0.4m high on the south, downhill side and as a scarped terrace on the uphill side with a possible entrance gap to the east. The floor area appears intact. There are indications of a second hut, recognisable as a low, roughly circular platform, immediately to the NE, and traces of associated field enclosures.
There are relatively few examples of upstanding settlement remains of this period in such a lowland setting and the hut is therefore a rare survival, vulnerable to agricultural disturbance. The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of later prehistoric domestic construction practices. It 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.
Source: Cadw
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