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Pant y Griafolen Huts and Enclosures is a prehistoric unenclosed hut circle located in Wales. The site comprises the remains of small domestic structures dating to the Bronze Age or Iron Age, preserved as low stony mounds and platforms visible across the landscape. Unenclosed hut circles of this type typically represent farmsteads occupied seasonally or year-round by communities practising mixed agriculture and pastoralism.
The monument sits on bedrock composed of Caradoc Rocks, a formation of mudstone, siltstone and sandstone laid down during the Caradocian period of the Ordovician. This geology has yielded to weathering over millennia, contributing to the rounded character of the Welsh uplands where Pant y Griafolen stands. The underlying geology and local topography would have offered both grazing land and sheltered valleys suitable for prehistoric settlement.
The site is protected as a scheduled monument by Cadw, the Welsh heritage preservation body, under reference CN145. This status reflects its archaeological significance as evidence of early domestic and pastoral activity in the Welsh landscape, contributing to our understanding of how prehistoric communities adapted to and exploited their environment across Wales.
Pant y Griafolen Huts and Enclosures is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CN145. View the official record →
Pant y Griafolen Huts and Enclosures is a prehistoric unenclosed hut circle located in Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CN145.
Pant y Griafolen Huts and Enclosures 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.
Pant y Griafolen Huts and Enclosures 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 CN145.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Hut Settlement West of Allt Goch (5.7 km), Afon Bedol cist (5.8 km), Bwlch Cowlyd cairn (5.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Pant y Griafolen Huts and Enclosures'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.
Pant y Griafolen Huts and Enclosures stands on Caradoc Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Caradocian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.