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Muriau'r Gwyddelod Ancient Village; Settlement & Field Enclosures

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NPRN300000
Map ReferenceSH53SE
Grid ReferenceSH5854030180
Unitary (Local) AuthorityGwynedd
Old CountyMerioneth
CommunityHarlech
Type Of SiteSETTLEMENT
PeriodPrehistoric
Description
1. NAR SH53SE8
Cadw SAM No.=ME010

2. Muriau'r Gwyddelod, or `Irishman's walls' above Harlech, is a largely intact farming landscape of Iron Age or Romano-British date with a double hut group enclosed in a curving paddock and radiating field walls linking to other circular and oval homesteads nearby. Some of the field walls still in use fossilize the lines of boundaries first laid out in prehistoric times. The remains here extend over an area, c.450m ENE-WSW by 250m, incorporating a curvilinear settlement complex (NPRN 401818), a pair of rectangular structures (NPRN 401813) occurring within its area.

T. Driver, RCAHMW, 20th March 2008.

3. 2. For additional aerial photographs, refer to associated site record NPRN 401818.

T. Driver, RCAHMW, 2014