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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Settlement South of Manod BachCountry: Wales
NOTE: This site is 0.545 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Gwynedd Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Blaenau Ffestiniog Nearest Village: Llan Ffestiniog
Map Ref: SH714438
Latitude: 52.976076N Longitude: 3.916677W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Gwynedd. The site is situated within a dip between the foothills to the south of Manod Bach. The settlement appears to be multi-period with a possible cluster of hut circles and large oval enclosures. There are also boundary walls that appear later and there is the remains of a probable rectangular hut currently overgrown by gorse bushes some 50m east of the hut circles. A further rectangular hut can be seen in the valley below, some 1k south of the settlement.
A modern boundary wall separates the cluster of hut circles. I counted 5 huts that are small, some up to 5m in diameter with the walls raised to about 0.4 in areas.
The enclosures differ in size with the largest about 70m long and occupying a central position within a modern field boundary to the north of the cluster of huts.
There is a footpath that leads directly to the settlement site from Cae Clyd, Blaenau Ffestiniig.
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