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Caerhoslligwy Enclosed Hut Groups is a prehistoric enclosed settlement located in Wales, protected by Cadw under reference AN105. The site comprises multiple hut circles arranged within an enclosure, representing domestic occupation during the late prehistoric period. Such grouped settlements are characteristic of Bronze Age and Iron Age communities across Wales and the wider British Isles, where families or extended kinship groups lived in close proximity within defended or delineated boundaries.
The monument sits upon Dinantian bedrock of limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks, geology that shaped both the landscape's appearance and the community's resource availability. The calcareous soils derived from this limestone would have supported grassland suitable for pastoral farming, the primary subsistence strategy of enclosed settlement communities. The stone-rich geology also provided building material for the hut structures and enclosure walls, whose surviving remains are visible in the modern landscape.
The arrangement of multiple hut circles within a single enclosed area suggests a settlement pattern focused on communal grazing management and social cohesion. Such groupings often functioned as kinship-based units, with individual huts housing separate households. The survival of the earthwork remains allows study of prehistoric domestic organisation and landscape use in what is now Wales during a period when such enclosed hut groups represented the dominant settlement form across upland and marginal areas.
Caerhoslligwy Enclosed Hut Groups is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference AN105. View the official record →
Caerhoslligwy Enclosed Hut Groups is a prehistoric enclosed settlement located in Wales, protected by Cadw under reference AN105.
Caerhoslligwy Enclosed Hut Groups 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.
Caerhoslligwy Enclosed Hut Groups 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 AN105.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Parciau Dovecote (1.4 km), Pant-y-Saer Burial Chamber (3.4 km), Maen Addwyn (3.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Caerhoslligwy Enclosed Hut Groups'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.
Caerhoslligwy Enclosed Hut Groups stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.