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80: 66: 122: 54: 107: 92: 144: 19: 159: 178:. It was first settled about 1300 BC. The 24 hut circles are surrounded by a massive granite perimeter wall, which may have stood 5 feet 7 inches (1.7 m) tall in places. The roundhouses, with an average diameter of 11 feet (3.4 m), were each built of a double ring of granite slabs with a rubble infill – a technique still used in 37:
Hut circles are usually around 5 to 25 feet (1.5 to 7.6 m) in internal diameter, the rocks themselves being 2–3 feet (0.61–0.91 m) wide and around 3 feet (0.91 m) high. Hut circles were also almost certainly covered by conical rounded roofs and supported by posts that were internal and
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Hut circles also occur in Northern Scotland, but it is unclear whether there is a connection between these and the hut circles in England. These hut circles were usually in pairs, and surrounded by groups of
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There are more than 100 registered hut circles and enclosures in Wales. They are to be found in areas which have not been ploughed and the stones have not been disturbed. They are quite common in the north.
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were found in the huts during Victorian excavations. However, few organic artefacts survived in the acidic soil. Ashes were found at a central hearth in each hut.
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is a circular or oval depression in the ground which may or may not have a low stone wall around it that used to be the foundation of a
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of sepulchral origin. These hut circles were around 40 feet (12 m) in diameter and 20–30 yards (18–27 m) apart.
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has fallen. There is good evidence of human activity: pottery, scrapers, and
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are the remains of an Iron Age village composed of round houses below the
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Roberts, G. (1865). "Some further notes upon pre-historic hut-circles".
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Hemp, W. J.; Gresham, C. A. (1944). "Hut-circles in North-west Wales".
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round house
Tre'r Ceiri Celtic Iron Age hut circle
Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles
Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles
Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles
Trearddur hut circles
Trearddur
Din Lligwy hut circles
Din Lligwy
Hut circle near Aber Fallsn Conwy
Aber Fallsn
Conwy

Grimspound
Dartmoor

Dartmoor
Grimspound
Late Bronze Age
dry-stone walling
lintel
pot boilers
Halangy Down
Isles of Scilly
Bant's Carn
tumuli


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