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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. In 1871 the Nant was occupied by Mr William Thomas a widow and his daughter Magdelyn ,son in law Thomas Roberts ,daughter Mary Thomas,
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