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Huts and Enclosures, Cwm Llefrith is a prehistoric hut circle settlement located in Wales on bedrock formed from Caradocian mudstone, siltstone and sandstone of the Caradoc Rocks formation. The site sits within a landscape shaped by these ancient sedimentary deposits, which weather to produce the distinctive soils of upland Wales. Such geological conditions typically supported pastoral communities in prehistory, and the choice of this valley location would have provided access to water and grazing land for stock.
The settlement comprises multiple hut circles and associated enclosures arranged across the valley floor. These circular or oval structures, marked today by low banks and stone clearance heaps, represent the domestic and stock management infrastructure of a prehistoric farming community. The dispersed arrangement of huts and their associated boundaries reflects the pastoral economy characteristic of upland settlement during the Bronze Age and Iron Age periods.
The site is protected by Cadw, the Welsh Historic Monuments organization, under reference CN240. This designation recognizes the archaeological importance of the settlement as evidence for the prehistoric occupation and exploitation of upland Wales. The preservation of such settlements provides crucial information about settlement patterns, land use and subsistence practices during the later prehistory of Britain.
Huts and Enclosures, Cwm Llefrith is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CN240. View the official record →
Huts and Enclosures, Cwm Llefrith is a prehistoric hut circle settlement located in Wales on bedrock formed from Caradocian mudstone, siltstone and sandstone of the Caradoc Rocks formation. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CN240.
Huts and Enclosures, Cwm Llefrith dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a hut circle settlement. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Huts and Enclosures, Cwm Llefrith 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 CN240.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Hut Circles near Craig y Gesail (5.5 km), Fach-goch, standing stone to SSE of (5.9 km), Roman Bath-House, Tremadoc (6.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Huts and Enclosures, Cwm Llefrith'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.
Huts and Enclosures, Cwm Llefrith stands on Caradoc Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Caradocian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.