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Hut Group North of Cwmceiliog is a prehistoric enclosed hut circle located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference CN111. The site sits on bedrock formed from Ordovician felsic lava and tuff, rocks that solidified over 450 million years ago from ancient volcanic activity. This ancient geology provided a stable foundation and useful stone resources for the communities who later occupied the location.
The hut circle represents settlement activity during the prehistoric period, when small domestic structures of this kind were constructed across upland and marginal landscapes in Wales and beyond. Enclosed hut circles typically comprised a single circular or sub-circular dwelling, often with an entrance passage and surrounded by a low stone bank or wall, serving both practical and possibly symbolic functions for Iron Age and earlier Bronze Age communities.
The monument's positioning within this particular landscape, underlain by the distinctive Ordovician volcanic rocks, reflects the settlement patterns of prehistoric peoples who utilised both the terrain and available stone for building and tool-making. The survival of the site as an earthwork has allowed it to remain archaeologically significant, preserving evidence of domestic life in the Welsh uplands during prehistory.
Hut Group North of Cwmceiliog is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CN111. View the official record →
Hut Group North of Cwmceiliog is a prehistoric enclosed hut circle located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference CN111.
Hut Group North of Cwmceiliog 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 Group North of Cwmceiliog 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 CN111.
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 North of Cwmceiliog'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 North of Cwmceiliog stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Ordovician, bedrock that formed in the Ordovician. The rock here is felsic lava and felsic tuff.