There aren't many similar sites so it's worth a visit. Located on high, open moorland, it may have been a summer settlement, for use when animals were taken up to the pastures.

Today you can still see an irregular jumble of stone walls. They represent a series of enclosures and houses which once formed an amorphous village.

Most of the walls are quite low, never more than 1 metre high, and are interlinked. See if you can spot which walls mark Iron Age roundhouses and which walls mark enclosures, perhaps representing open yards in which the Celts kept animals.

The walls of the houses would have originally been drystone, probably supporting thatched roofs. Using the drystone walls as clues, can you imagine the thatched roofs of the houses, perhaps with smoke billowing in the air, the animals in the yard and the noise of the farming families as they went about their daily lives?

Excavations at the site have found very little evidence, only a little iron and evidence of leather, a fact which some historians say suggests material poverty among the occupants.

There is a Forest Enterprise car park nearby where you'll find a map showing the locations of the various huts.

Directions: Take A4016 Treherbert to Hirwaun road. The site is located 4km north of Treherbert and on open moor near the road.