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Cefn Banog Ancient Village is a prehistoric hut circle settlement located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference DE029. The site comprises the earthwork remains of multiple dwelling structures arranged across sloping terrain underlain by Wenlock Rocks, a bedrock of interbedded sandstone and conglomerate that would have provided exposed stone for construction and tool-working. The hut circles are characteristic of Bronze Age and Iron Age domestic settlement patterns across upland and marginal Welsh landscapes, where scattered small communities exploited pastoral resources and cultivated cleared ground around their dispersed homesteads.
The settlement's location reflects the choices of prehistoric communities occupying exposed ground where the underlying geology offered both raw materials and natural drainage on potentially boggy upland terrain. The Wenlock sandstone and conglomerate outcrops typical of this bedrock geology would have been accessible and suitable for building stone, while the exposed landscape provided grazing for livestock and vantage points for defence and communication across the surrounding hills.
Cefn Banog represents the persistent pattern of human settlement across the Welsh uplands during the later prehistoric period, when such dispersed hut circle villages formed the fundamental unit of social and economic organisation across much of Britain beyond the lowland zones.
Cefn Banog Ancient Village is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference DE029. View the official record →
Cefn Banog Ancient Village is a prehistoric hut circle settlement located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference DE029.
Cefn Banog Ancient Village dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a hut circle settlement. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Cefn Banog Ancient Village 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 DE029.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Mynydd Rhyd Ddu Enclosure (4.9 km), Mwdwl Eithin Round Cairn (5 km), Pen-y-Gaer Camp (Caer Caradog) (5.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Cefn Banog Ancient Village'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.
Cefn Banog Ancient Village stands on Wenlock Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.