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<< Our Photo Pages >> Hut Circle Settlement North of Blaen Nantmor - Ancient Village or Settlement in Wales in Gwynedd

Submitted by TAlanJones on Monday, 28 February 2022  Page Views: 318

Multi-periodSite Name: Hut Circle Settlement North of Blaen Nantmor Alternative Name: Cwm Gelli Iago Ancient Settlement east
Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 1.623 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Gwynedd Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Beddgelert
Map Ref: SH6405847500
Latitude: 53.007502N  Longitude: 4.027505W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
1 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Hut Circle Settlement North of Blaen Nantmor
Hut Circle Settlement North of Blaen Nantmor submitted by TAlanJones : View to the north from a hut circle. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Situated on the eastern flank of Cwm Gelli Iago, the site lies to the north of a rocky knoll that rises from a highland moor terrain. This settlement site consists of two identified hut circles, enclosure walls and clearance cairns all thought to date from the same period, i.e Iron Age/Romano British period. The two identified hut circles lie about 6m apart. I have included a third structure, i.e. a possible hut circle, to this site mainly due to its appearance and its location to the other two hut circles. A further consideration is that only one of the identified two hut circles is clearly definable.

The definable hut circle has an interior diameter of 5.5m and walls of 1.3m thick that are raised to 0.4m. The second, less definable hut would appear to have a larger diameter. The third possible contemporary structure is approximately 30m east of the other two and partially incorporated into the rocky knoll.

The enclosure walls appear more as ridges as opposed to stone walls. The ridges tend to incorporate the clearance cairns suggesting that the clearance cairns may be the original stones that made up the enclosures.

This is an open and wild landscape. The site is not on a public footpath but the track that leads from Cwm Gelli Iago passes a few hundred meters away as it meanders towards the mighty Cnicht towering to the south.
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Hut Circle Settlement North of Blaen Nantmor
Hut Circle Settlement North of Blaen Nantmor submitted by TAlanJones : The third circular structure incorporating the rocky knoll. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hut Circle Settlement North of Blaen Nantmor
Hut Circle Settlement North of Blaen Nantmor submitted by TAlanJones : View to the west from the third hut circle with the definable hut circle centre pic. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hut Circle Settlement North of Blaen Nantmor
Hut Circle Settlement North of Blaen Nantmor submitted by TAlanJones : View to the north across the definable hut circle with the Snowdon Range in the background. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hut Circle Settlement North of Blaen Nantmor
Hut Circle Settlement North of Blaen Nantmor submitted by TAlanJones : Southern arc of the second hut circle. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hut Circle Settlement North of Blaen Nantmor
Hut Circle Settlement North of Blaen Nantmor submitted by TAlanJones : View to the north across the definable hut circle with Clogwyn Coch in the background.

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 345m NW 315° Hut Circle Settlement SW of Clogwyn Coch* Ancient Village or Settlement (SH63824775)
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 2.1km SSW 201° Cleddyf Iago* Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature (SH6325545590)
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