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Holyhead Mountain Prehistoric Village is a Bronze Age hut circle settlement located on Holyhead Mountain in Anglesey, Wales. The site consists of multiple domestic structures arranged across the hillside, representing evidence of sustained prehistoric settlement and occupation patterns during the Bronze Age period. The hut circles remain visible as circular or oval depressions and stone foundations, providing archaeological insight into the domestic arrangements and settlement hierarchy of Bronze Age communities in north Wales. The unenclosed nature of the settlement indicates a period of relative stability when defensive fortification was not a primary concern for the inhabitants.
Holyhead Mountain Prehistoric Village is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference AN016. View the official record →
Holyhead Mountain Prehistoric Village is a Bronze Age hut circle settlement located on Holyhead Mountain in Anglesey, Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference AN016.
Holyhead Mountain Prehistoric Village dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a unenclosed hut circle settlement. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Holyhead Mountain Prehistoric 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 AN016.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Gogarth Bay round cairn (0.7 km), Enclosed Hut Circle Settlement at Capel Llochwydd (0.8 km), Caer y Tŵr (1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Holyhead Mountain Prehistoric 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.
Holyhead Mountain Prehistoric Village stands on Upper Cambrian, Including Tremadoc, bedrock that formed in the Tremadocian. The rock here is metasedimentary rock.