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Multi-periodSite Name: Braich Ddu Round Hut Alternative Name: Unenclosed Hut Circle, CyfanneddCountry: Wales County: Gwynedd Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Llwyngwril Nearest Village: Friog
Map Ref: SH6352512130
Latitude: 52.689611N Longitude: 4.020628W
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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Situated in the uplands above Friog the area can be driven to via the lane that leads from Llwyngwril to Dolgellau. This is a scheduled site that occupies a natural shelf on the northern slope of Braich Ddu. The hut circle lies either side of a boundary fence that separates the open moor to the east from the forestry to the west. Coflein has recorded the site as NPRN 302835.
The hut circle has a fragmented dry stone bank that's more prominent on its western side. I paced the diameter to be 8m and its height to be less than a metre which almost agrees with the scheduled monuments account. Coflein do not provide a description but Gwynedd Archaeological Trust's Archwilio site does. Both descriptions emphasise a difficulty to interpret the site. However, the scheduled monument interpretation differs to that of Archwilio in that they state that the monument could be a ring cairn dating from the Bronze Age as opposed to a later round house? The scheduled monuments description of the site also mentions the two cairns lying a little further west, that I have visited but a cairn field to the south does not get a mention.
An interesting site within a very scenic environment spoilt only by the numbers of 4x4 off-roaders noisily travelling along the ancient trackways.
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