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Hut Group and Field System North West of Tyddyn Mawr is a prehistoric unenclosed hut circle settlement located in Wales. The site sits upon bedrock of Ordovician extrusive rocks, comprising felsic lava and felsic tuff formed during the Ordovician period. This ancient geological foundation has shaped the landscape inhabited by successive Bronze Age and Iron Age communities, whose stone-built roundhouses and associated field boundaries remain visible in the upland terrain today.
The hut group comprises multiple circular dwelling sites arranged across the hillside without defensive enclosure walls, characteristic of dispersed prehistoric settlement patterns in upland Wales. The associated field system demonstrates how Bronze Age and Iron Age inhabitants managed the surrounding landscape for agriculture and pastoralism, adapting their land use to the exposed terrain and underlying bedrock conditions. The absence of perimeter defences suggests a community organised around kinship and family groups rather than fortified settlement.
The monument is protected by Cadw, the Welsh Historic Monuments service, under reference CN112, recognising its significance for understanding prehistoric settlement, economy and social organisation in upland Wales. The survival of both domestic structures and their surrounding fields provides rare archaeological evidence of how these communities integrated dwelling, farming and herding within their immediate landscape during the later prehistoric period.
Hut Group & Field System North West of Tyddyn Mawr (previously known as Hut Group NW of Tyddyn Mawr) is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CN112. View the official record →
Hut Group and Field System North West of Tyddyn Mawr is a prehistoric unenclosed hut circle settlement located in Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CN112.
Hut Group & Field System North West of Tyddyn Mawr (previously known as Hut Group NW of Tyddyn Mawr) dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a unenclosed hut circle. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Hut Group & Field System North West of Tyddyn Mawr (previously known as Hut Group NW of Tyddyn Mawr) 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 CN112.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Carn Pentyrch Camp (3.4 km), St Cybi's Well (3.9 km), Cross-Incised Stone in Llangybi Churchyard (4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Hut Group & Field System North West of Tyddyn Mawr (previously known as Hut Group NW of Tyddyn Mawr)'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 Group & Field System North West of Tyddyn Mawr (previously known as Hut Group NW of Tyddyn Mawr) stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Ordovician, bedrock that formed in the Ordovician. The rock here is felsic lava and felsic tuff.