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I will try to keep this section to a minimum so I have collected just some of the most interesting projects and will keep on adding as I find them. In the manor of Aber, the Record of Caernarvon refers to ' laffryth de Nantmawan, Nanheskele and Ycras ' together with the havotries of ' Meuryn, Nanteracadrat' and all others pertaining to the manor (. Rec. of Caernarvon, p. 140.) A group of rectangular stone buildings less than half a mile below the Aber Falls or Rhaeadr Fawr has been suggested as representing the site of the hafod of Nanteracadrat, taking its name from the waterfall. Excavations there showed that it had been in use up to the eighteenth century, but the absence of medieval material does not preclude a use of the site going back to that period. Two adjoining Platform Houses on the ridge above this, just under one mile to the east and now afforested, are likely to be the hafod of Meuryn. Hafod Gelyn, close by in the valley of the Afon Anafon, was the hafod of the Prince's Manor of Aber, and is a most interesting site, which is referred to in 1648 in the Wynn Papers (Calendar of Wynn (of Gwydir) Papers (1515-1690) (1926), p. 309. no. 1865. Some of the information in this paragraph is by courtesy of Dr. Colin Gresham). It was rebuilt in the eighteenth century as a simple one-floor cottage with a half loft (Peter Smith, Houses of the Welsh Countryside (1976), fig. 183d.), but this can be seen to overlie the more extensive remains of a typical medieval site. This is an extract from an artical by Mr Elwyn Davis in The Caernarvonshire Historical Society book of 1979, 4
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