Hovel at Tan-y-bwlch

The structure consists of a sub-rectangular chamber 1.92m x 2.8m built of boulders and packed with smaller stones, probably originally also including moss, with a roof of 4 corbelled slabs. At one corner, a narrow rectangular doorway with a monolithic lintel, 72cm wide, with a later doorframe, and at the opposite corner a raised hearth framed in stone. A blocked window overlooking the small pig sty, not now discernible internally, indicates alteration during the period of its life. Adjoining the long side on the SW, is a square pen presumably for a pig, 1.7m square, similarly constructed and integrated with the building, and having a shelter at the back end, 1.2 wide, entered by a low opening. Lean-to roof of large stone slabs. The interior is similarly paved. The assocated run has slightly convex paving, with boulder gateposts. No surviving fittings.

The chamber walls are slightly corbelled out rising towards the capstone slab roof, 1.8m high at the centre, and with a level floor of stone. The 75 x 70 cm slightly raised hearth has at one side, a vertical orthostat carrying a lintel stone, and a small flue rises through the roof. Two pairs of small rectangular niches in the side wall.