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Hut Circles West of Corbri is a prehistoric enclosed hut circle settlement located in Wales and protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw under reference CN287. The site comprises the remains of domestic structures built and occupied during the prehistoric period, belonging to a settlement type characteristic of Bronze Age and Iron Age communities in upland Wales. Such settlements typically housed extended family or kinship groups living in close proximity within a communal enclosure.
The monument sits upon Lower Cambrian mudstones, siltstones and sandstones, bedrock formed during the Early Cambrian period over 500 million years ago. This ancient geology underlay the settlement's foundations when inhabitants constructed their dwellings, and the same strata would have provided stone for building and tool-making, as well as influencing the local drainage and soil conditions that determined settlement location.
The hut circles comprise the principal archaeological features surviving at the site, with their circular or sub-circular ground plans marking where roundhouses once stood. The enclosing boundary demarcates the settlement's defended or communal space, a common arrangement in Iron Age communities across Wales and the Marches. The surviving earthworks remain an important record of prehistoric domestic settlement patterns and land use in this region.
Hut Circles West of Corbri is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CN287. View the official record →
Hut Circles West of Corbri is a prehistoric enclosed hut circle settlement located in Wales and protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw under reference CN287.
Hut Circles West of Corbri dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a enclosed hut circle settlement. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Hut Circles West of Corbri 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 CN287.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Carnedd Dafydd, cairn to SW of (7.3 km), Carnedd Fach cairn (7.4 km), Llys Dinorwig (7.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Hut Circles West of Corbri'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 Circles West of Corbri stands on Lower Cambrian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Early Cambrian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.