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Enclosed Hut Circle West of Llwyn Bedw is a prehistoric enclosed hut circle located in Wales. The monument sits upon Neoproterozoic bedrock comprising unnamed extrusive rocks, specifically felsic tuff deposited during the Neoproterozoic era. This ancient volcanic geology has shaped the landscape for over 600 million years before the hut circle's construction in prehistory.
The site is protected as a scheduled monument under Cadw, the Welsh heritage authority, with reference CN264. Enclosed hut circles of this type typically date to the Bronze Age or Iron Age, representing domestic settlements where single households occupied circular stone or timber structures surrounded by defensive or boundary earthworks. The enclosure would have provided both practical containment and symbolic definition of domestic space.
The volcanic tuff bedrock underlying the site would have provided useful stone for construction of the circular dwelling and its surrounding enclosure, making this location strategically suited to settlement. Such monuments are characteristic of prehistoric upland communities throughout Wales, whose inhabitants exploited the moorland and pastoral resources whilst maintaining connections to wider Bronze and Iron Age societies.
Enclosed Hut Circle West of Llwyn Bedw is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CN264. View the official record →
Enclosed Hut Circle West of Llwyn Bedw is a prehistoric enclosed hut circle located in Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CN264.
Enclosed Hut Circle West of Llwyn Bedw 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.
Enclosed Hut Circle West of Llwyn Bedw 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 CN264.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Nantlle Railway and Old Talysarn (5.5 km), Cloddfa'r Lon Slate Quarry (5.5 km), Dorothea Quarry, Pyramids, Inclines, Mill & Winding Houses, etc (5.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Enclosed Hut Circle West of Llwyn Bedw'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.
Enclosed Hut Circle West of Llwyn Bedw stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Neoproterozoic, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is felsic tuff.