The excavation of an enclosed hut-group at Cae'r-mynydd in Caernarvonshire

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The ‘enclosed hut-groups’, or native homesteads consisting of round or rectangular buildings within an enclosure, of N.W. Wales are well known and have been discussed by Ralegh Radford as well as by Hemp and myself. Caernarvonshire contains many examples of these farmsteads, but few have been excavated and the problems of their origin, date, and development are still numerous and perplexing. Howel Williams excavated two sites of this type near Rhostryfan in 1921–2, and these yielded Romano-British pottery and other objects datable to the second to fourth centuries A.D. Two hut-groups at Caerau, near Pant-glas, excavated by O'Neil in 1933–4, proved to have been occupied during the second and third centuries. This dating is in accord with what is known of similar sites in Anglesey, the best known of these being at Din Lligwy. On the other hand, a more recently excavated homestead in the island, at Pant-y-saer, has produced evidence of occupation during the earlier part of the dark ages.

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