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Banc Llwydlos Hut Group is a prehistoric enclosed hut circle located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference PE370. The monument comprises the remains of roundhouses and associated structures typical of Iron Age or earlier Bronze Age settlement patterns in the Welsh uplands. The site sits on Llanvirn bedrock, a Whiterock formation composed of mudstone, siltstone and sandstone, which would have weathered to provide building stone for the hut walls.
The hut circles are characteristic of the dispersed settlement strategy adopted in Bronze Age and Iron Age Wales, where small family groups occupied enclosed homesteads rather than nucleated villages. The Whiterock geology underlying the site would have influenced both settlement choice and construction methods, with the naturally fractured stone readily available for building the stone-faced walls that define hut circles of this period.
The protective enclosure surrounding the hut group, evidenced by remaining earthwork or stone-built boundaries, would have served practical purposes in animal husbandry and defence. Such enclosed hut groups represent important evidence for domestic life, agricultural practice and social organisation in prehistoric Wales, and the monument's designation by Cadw recognises its significance to understanding Iron Age or Bronze Age settlement and economy in the Welsh landscape.
Banc Llwydlos Hut Group is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference PE370. View the official record →
Banc Llwydlos Hut Group is a prehistoric enclosed hut circle located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference PE370.
Banc Llwydlos Hut Group dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a enclosed hut circle. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Banc Llwydlos Hut Group is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is PE370.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Pencraig-Fawr Camp (7.2 km), Hill Slope Enclosure, 400m WNW of Parc Robert (7.4 km), New Moat Castle Mound (8.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Banc Llwydlos Hut Group's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Banc Llwydlos Hut Group stands on Llanvirn Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Whiterock. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.