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Hut Circle Settlement at Nant Ddu is a prehistoric enclosed hut circle situated in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference ME164. The settlement occupies a landscape underlain by Tremadoc Rocks, a sequence of mudstone, siltstone and sandstone formed during the Tremadocian period. This geology would have provided local building stone and defined the character of the surrounding terrain during occupation.
The hut circle represents a form of domestic settlement common across upland Britain and Wales during the Bronze Age and Iron Age. Enclosed hut circles typically comprised a roughly circular dwelling with stone or timber walls, often surrounded by a substantial bank or ditch that may have served defensive, boundary or stock-containing functions. The enclosed plan distinguishes such settlements from open, undefended homesteads.
The site's location on Tremadoc bedrock places it in country where stone for construction was readily available from natural outcrops and from clearance of the agricultural land. Such positions on valley floors or lower slopes were characteristic of prehistoric settlement distribution in Wales, offering access to water, grazing and cultivable ground. The monument survives as an important archaeological record of early domestic life in the Welsh landscape.
Hut Circle Settlement at Nant Ddu is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference ME164. View the official record →
Hut Circle Settlement at Nant Ddu is a prehistoric enclosed hut circle situated in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference ME164.
Hut Circle Settlement at Nant Ddu 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.
Hut Circle Settlement at Nant Ddu 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 ME164.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Hut Circles East of Moel Geifr (8.7 km), Bryn Cader-Faner Round Cairn (8.9 km), Settlements SW of Bryn Cader Faner (9.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Hut Circle Settlement at Nant Ddu'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.
Hut Circle Settlement at Nant Ddu stands on Tremadoc Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Tremadocian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.