Gwynedd Archaeological
Trust Regional Historic Environment Record
Hut Group, Bodafon Mountain
Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 5524 Trust : Gwynedd Community : Moelfre Unitary authority : Ynys Mon NGR : SH47108508 Site Type (preferred type first) : PREHISTORIC HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENT Status : Common Land
Description : Number of hut foundations and enclosure walls, in two main groups, on E side of Bodafon Mountain. <1>
Scheduled area of PRN 1552 extended to cover this site also. <2>
This curvilinear enclosed settlement has only been surveyed by Griffiths (1955, 16), and earlier by the Royal Commission (RCAHMW 1937), but it is included here as it was planned at the same time as Griffiths' work on Bodafon Mountain A (AN19; Figure 6.12). The oval stone enclosure has an entrance to the north. A stone roundhouse, c. 9m in diameter, is situated against the western enclosing wall and has an entrance to the north. A second smaller roundhouse, c. 4m in diameter, may have functioned as an ancillary structure it is linked to the main roundhouse via a wall which leads from the two entranceways, and stands in the centre of the enclosure with an entrance to the north-east. (Waddington, 2013)
Sources :
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
Ordnance Survey , 1970 , SH48SE 2 , <4>
Griffiths, W. E. , 1955 , Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society , <6>
Ordnance Survey , 1937 , Anglesey , <1>
Smith, G. , 1998 , Hut Circle Settlement Survey , <7>
Events : 42046 : Excavations on Bodafon Mountain (year : 1955) 40782 : Hut Circle Settlement Survey (year : 1998) 44557 : Early Celtic Societies in North Wales (year : 2010)
