Maes y Castell Hut Circles, Caerhun Parish

These two hut circles sit on private land belonging to Maes y Castell farm near Pontwgan, very close to the farm buildings, and are marked on the Ordnance Survey map. There's very little online about these hut circles, which Coflein assigns to the Roman period.

You can see a short video of the hut circles, in which the contours are more obvious than in photos, here. The huts are at Ordnance Survey grid reference SH 7635 7067, but aren't on a footpath and can't be visited without permission of the landowner.

 

This small field contains two hut circles, one to the left in front of the large tree, and one to the right.

The left, westernmost circle, is quite obvious on the ground as a raised ring. The hut remains lie on a patch of flat land between gentle slopes, a little distance from the Afon Ro.

The centre of the western circle is patched with rushes.

The eastern circle is perhaps even more obvious, with quite a pronounced ring around it.

This one, too, has rushes at the centre. The land around this little field is quite boggy in places.

There are still a lot of stones quite obvious near the surface of the ground.

Looking back towards the western circle. Again, the stones just below the surface are quite obvious.

If these hut remains are of the Roman era then they might have been occupied at the same time as the fort at nearby Caerhun, now the site of the parish church. You can read a little about round huts here. The site also has photos of a few reconstructions, and a quite comprehensive list of hut sites in North-West Wales.