Gwynedd Archaeological
Trust Regional Historic Environment Record
Smelting Floor, Coed Newydd
Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 2117 Trust : Gwynedd Community : Moelfre Unitary authority : Ynys Mon NGR : SH489858 Site Type (preferred type first) : BRONZE AGE BURNT MOUND / BRONZE AGE BURNT MOUND / ROMAN METAL WORKING SITE Status : Scheduled Monument
Description : Three cooking hearths of possible Bronze Age period were excavated here, demonstrating positive evidence of human activity in Coed Newydd Wood. (Baynes, 1913)
A search of Coed Newydd wood for prehistoric hearths revealed a smelting floor. Excavation exposed a rhomboidal space approximately 21ft 6ins by 12ft 6ins, bounded by stones. A greater part of the floor was covered in fragments of coal and coal dust bound together with iron rust. Two iron bars, found with iron-slag, were produced by Roman methods. <2>
A similar hearth at Din Lligwy was smaller, about left by 3ft, and was proved to be of Romano-British date. <3>
The smelting floor is sunk approximately 0.6 metres below ground level and is bounded by dry-stone retaining walls. Surveyed at 1:2500. <4>
Situated near hearths already described. Rhomboidal space by stones on edge or coursed. Two stones in clay floor 9" high near east corner. <5>
Penrhos Lligwy No. 1: Horse-shoe shaped mound excavated to reveal a central stone-lined trough, interpreted by the excavator as a hearth. (Kenney, 2011)
Revised Broad class to Domestic and Monument, as exact classification unknown. (Derby, 2019).
Reference to discovery of hearths at Penrhoslligwy by E.Neil Baynes (Cantrill, & Jones, 1911). Site is also referenced in Lynch, F. 1991, Prehistoric Anglesey, pp 281 - 2, Anglesey Antiquarian Society although Grid references shown differ to that for this PRN
Sources :
Baynes, N. E. , 1913 , Prehistoric Cooking Places in Anglesey , Archaeologia Cambrensis : Vol. XIII : p. 201-214
Cantrill, T. C. & Jones, O. T. , 1911 , Prehistoric Cooking-Places in South Wales
Kenney, J. , 2011 , Burnt Mounds in north-west Wales
Waddington, K. , 2010 , Early Celtic Societies in North Wales
Waddington, K. , 2013 , The Settlements of Northwest Wales: From the Late Bronze Age to the Early Medieval Period
Walker, D. , 1985-1988 , Parish Church Index Cards
Neil Baynes, E. , 1920 , Archaeologia Cambrensis , <2>
Ordnance Survey , 1967 , SH48NE 8 , <3>
Ordnance Survey , 1970 , SH48NE 8 , <4>
Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments , Coed Newydd Smelting Floor , <5>
Kenney, J. , 2011 , Burnt Mounds , <6>
Events : 42248 : A Smelting Floor at Penrhos Lligwy (year : 1919) 44557 : Early Celtic Societies in North Wales (year : 2010)
