
Not easy to see through the vegetation, but there are settlement remains here.
Not easy to see through the vegetation, but there are settlement remains here.
The settlement looks down on Newport Bay and the Nyfer estuary.
Low remains of a circular wall peak through the bracken.
Settlement site below Carningli. Looking towards Carn Ffoi hillfort (in shadow) with Dinas Island away on the coast, far right.
Hut (Bronze Age farmstead?) close to Cot Llwyd
Looked at this area several times in the winter of 2007-2008 -- much easier than in the summer, when the bracken is high. The pictured hut is called Hut No 1 by Pearson:
envf.port.ac.uk/geo/research/carningli/archaeology.htm
There is another hut circle on lower ground adjacent to Cot Llwyd cottage. Abundant Bronze Age traces everywhere -- old walls, clearance cairns, trackways, stone takes etc.
There appears to have been one small settlement here, and another around Carn Llwyd N, where there are 5 or 6 huts (I find more every time I walk across the area. Easy to see just now, after some very big gorse burns this past winter.