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Image of Craig Cerrig-gleisiad (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by GLADMAN

Aerial view of the settlement site – the frankly perfectly sheltered settlement site – from the magnificent cliff line of Craig Cerrig-gleisiad. Fan Frynych’s ancient cairn can be discerned top right.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
Image of Craig Cerrig-gleisiad (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by thesweetcheat

General view of the site. The bracken covered features are stone-built banks, either from the prehistoric settlement or the later medieval overlay.

Image credit: A. Brookes (10.7.2014)

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Craig Cerrig-gleisiad
Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork

Information from the Clwyd Powys Archaelogical Trust HER:

The earlier settlement complex occupies the E.-facing outer slope of the cwm between 402 and 442 m above O.D., and measures 160 m (E.-W.) by 140 m (N.-S.) It comprises a group of hillslope-set scooped enclosures including hut circles and associated embankments.

The most norwesterly is a pair of roughly circular hut platforms set upon a natural, boulder-strewn semi-circular rush-grown terrace to the N. of the stream which now drains the cwm. The hut embankments recognised here by the O.S. in 1976 were difficult to distinguish with confidence in 1981 and 1991. This hut group lies immediately outside, which is a subrectangular enclosure embanked by rubble walls up to 3 m wide and 0.4 m high, the longer axis aligned N.N.W.- S.S.E. (of c. 35 m by 23 m). This is bisected unequally by the stream, leaving a smaller, more incomplete enclosed area on the N. bank, whilst an internal E.-W. dividing bank makes a full enclosure of the steeply-sloping southern part, which is entered through a gap about 2 m wide about halfway down the E. side. Protruding from the S. terminal is a linear outwork curving away a few metres to the N.

The setting is part of a beautiful nature reserve, below some of the most striking cliffs in the Brecon Beacons.

ccgc.gov.uk/landscape--wildlife/protecting-our-landscape/special-landscapes--sites/protected-landscapes/national-nature-reserves/craig-cerrig-gleisiad-a-fan-fr.aspx

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