Bryn Teg enclosed huts

Bryn Teg is an ancient settlement of enclosed stone huts near Cerrigydrudion in Conwy County Borough. The site dates from the Bronze Age and stands on a gentle slope above the valley. Its remains include low, circular stone walls that once formed the bases of round huts. Another name for these ruins is ‘Cytiau’r Gwyddelod’, meaning ‘Irishmen’s huts’, a traditional but misleading label. Cadw, Wales’ historic environment service, recognises Bryn Teg as a Scheduled Monument under reference DE229. The huts were built around 1500 BC and abandoned when the Romans arrived in Britain. The same people who raised these huts also constructed burial chambers, standing stones and hill forts across Gwynedd and nearby counties. Visitors find a quiet moorland landscape dotted with low stone circles and hut platforms. The wind moves across open grassland where no modern buildings intrude. A short walk from the nearest road brings the ruins into view, silent reminders of a farming people who lived three thousand years ago.