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Cefn Moel Round Houses is a Bronze Age hut circle settlement located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference BR423. The site comprises several circular dwelling structures typical of the Bronze Age period, when such settlements were common across the upland regions of Britain and Wales. These communities were adapted to mixed pastoral and agricultural economies, with roundhouses serving as both domestic and storage spaces for their occupants.
The settlement sits upon Lower Devonian sandstones and conglomerates that form the undifferentiated bedrock of the region, geology that dates to the Early Devonian period. This underlying foundation of interbedded sandstone and conglomerate has weathered over millennia to create a landscape characteristic of Welsh uplands, where Bronze Age communities exploited both the mineral resources and pastoral potential of such terrain.
The hut circles at Cefn Moel would have been constructed from local stone and organic materials, with their characteristic circular ground plans preserved as visible surface features. Such settlements represent important evidence of Bronze Age settlement patterns and land use in Wales, demonstrating how communities adapted their architecture and livelihood strategies to upland environments. The site remains a valuable record of prehistoric domestic life in the region.
Cefn Moel Round Houses is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference BR423. View the official record →
Cefn Moel Round Houses is a Bronze Age hut circle settlement located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference BR423.
Cefn Moel Round Houses dates from the bronze age period, and is classified as a hut circle settlement. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Cefn Moel Round Houses 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 BR423.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Pant Serthfa round cairn (7.2 km), Coed Pentwyn Hillfort (7.8 km), Clo Cadno platform cairn (8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Cefn Moel Round Houses's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Cefn Moel Round Houses stands on Lower Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Early Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.