Dyddio Hen Dai Cymreig

Uwchlaw’r-coed, NPRN: 28881, y tŷ hynaf yn Eryri sydd wedi’i ddyddio yn ôl arysgrif.

Yn ystod y pedair blynedd ddiwethaf bu’r Comisiwn Brenhinol yn gweithio mewn partneriaeth â’r Grŵp Dyddio Hen Dai Cymreig yng Ngogledd-Orllewin Cymru. Dan arweiniad Margaret Dunn, mae grŵp mawr o wirfoddolwyr wedi darganfod a dyddio oddeutu deg a thrigain o dai cynnar gyda chymorth Richard Suggett, hanesydd pensaernïol y Comisiwn Brenhinol. Y tŷ hynaf yn Eryri yn ôl y dyddiad sydd wedi’i arysgrifio arno yw Uwchlaw’r-coed, Llanenddwyn, Meirionnydd, sydd wedi’i ddyddio’n 1585.

Yr arysgrif 1585 yn Uwchlaw’r–coed.

Ond mae dyddio ar sail blwyddgylchau bellach yn mynd â hanes tai Eryri yn ôl i ddechrau’r unfed ganrif ar bymtheg ar ôl darganfod i Ddugoed ym Mhenmachno gael ei godi ym 1516/17.

Dugoed, NPRN: 26415, drwy astudio blwyddgylchau dyddiwyd y tŷ i 1516/17.

Mae llawer o dai eraill wedi’u dyddio ac mae’r canlyniadau i’w gweld ar Coflein erbyn hyn. Yn yr hydref 2014 bydd y Comisiwn Brenhinol yn cyhoeddi dadansoddiad o’r canlyniadau hyn, gan Richard Suggett ac aelodau o’r Grŵp Dyddio Hen Dai Cymreig, yng nghyd-destun newidiadau economaidd a chymdeithasol yr unfed ganrif ar bymtheg.

Gan Richard Suggett, Uwch Ymchwilydd Adeiladau Hanesyddol 

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IfA/HLF Workplace Learning Bursary in Historic Building Survey and Interpretation

Lon Swan Chapel, Denbighshire
DS2009_155_002   NPRN 7565 - © Crown Copyright RCAHMW

Hello to all the Royal Commission’s blog readers, my name is Ross Cook and I will be working at the Commission for the next year as part of an IfA/HLF Workplace Learning Bursary in Historic Building Survey and Interpretation. The aim of this placement is to equip me with the skills and expertise needed to work with historic buildings in the archaeological and heritage sectors, something I’ve always wanted to do and something I wish to pursue as a career.

It has been almost four weeks since the placement started, and in this time I’ve met all of the Commission staff, attended the staff Away Day, been learning about the work of the Commission and the data systems it uses. I’ve also been out on fieldwork in Denbigh with Buildings Investigator Susan Fielding, carrying our survey of sites for the forthcoming publication on Historic Denbigh.  Here I got to grips with using the Total Station and TheoLT in the survey of two chapels in the town, Lon Swan and Capel Mawr, and undertook a sketch survey of an ‘at risk’ industrial complex (smithy and later butchers) on Love Lane. A morning was also spent with Royal Commission photographer Iain Wright, photographing St Mary’s Church in the town, following which I was able to work-shadow Investigator Richard Suggett during his reconnaissance visits to possible tree-ring dating sites with Dan Miles from the Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory.  I’m now busy processing lots of data, producing illustrations and carrying out research following on from this fieldwork.

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Tŷ’r Castell: Tŷ Mawr Uchelgeisiol

Yr ardd o flaen Castell y Gelli yn ei hanterth yn y cyfnod Edwardaidd.
DS2012_280_001   NPRN 25592

Cafodd Tŷ’r Castell ei adeiladu yn yr ail ganrif ar bymtheg gan y teulu Gwynn ar ôl i arglwyddiaeth broffidiol y Gelli Seisnig ddod i’w meddiant. Tŷ mawr cynnar ac uchelgeisiol ydyw ar gynllun dyfnder dwy-ystafell. Dywedir fel rheol i’r tŷ gael ei godi yn dilyn yr Adferiad ym 1660. Ond mae’r Comisiwn Brenhinol wedi dyddio’r coed drwy astudio blwyddgylchau ac wedi dangos i’r tŷ gael ei adeiladu cyn y Rhyfel Cartref, gan ddefnyddio coed a dorrwyd i lawr ym 1636.

Gweld delweddau pellach o Tŷ’r Castell

Mae Tŷ’r Castell yn dal i sefyll er gwaethaf dau dân yn yr ugeinfed ganrif.
DS2012_280_009   NPRN 25592

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Castle House: An Ambitious Great House

The garden front of Hay Castle in its Edwardian heyday.
DS2012_280_001   NPRN 25592

Castle House was built in the seventeenth century by the Gwynn family after they had acquired the profitable lordship of English Hay. It is an early and ambitious great house of double-pile plan. The house is usually said to have been built with the Restoration in 1660. Tree-ring dating by the Royal Commission has now conclusively established that the house was built before the Civil War from timber felled in 1636.

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Castle House still standing after two twentieth-century fires.
DS2012_280_009   NPRN 25592

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