Location
- Atlas number
- WA1156 (1156)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Historic county
- Flintshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Nannerch
- Also recorded in
- Denbighshire
- National Grid reference
- SJ145660
- Latitude
- 53.18453
- Longitude
- -3.28064
- Altitude
- 456 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Also recorded
- guard chambers, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); Oblique (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and quarry hollows
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1849); Other (1977); Other (2012); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1872-1874); Other (2006-2011); Excavation (2013-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- FL010
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 102311
- National record
- record SJ 16 SE; monument 306899
- Wikidata
- Q31118595
Sources
References
- Brown, I. 2004. Discovering a Welsh landscape. Archaeology in the Clwydian Range, Bollington: Windgather Press, 52, 73.
- Brown, I. 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales, Oxford: Windgather Press/Oxbow Books.
- Burnham, H. 1995. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Clwyd and Powys, London: HMSO, 59.
- Davies, Canon Ellis 1949. Prehistoric and Roman remains of Flintshire, Cardiff: William Lewis, 267-70.
- Driver,T. 2011. The Hillforts, In ed Mrowiec, H., Heather and Hillforts of the Clwydian Range and Llantysilio Mountains, Ruthin: Heather and Hillforts Partnership Board, Denbighshire County Council.
- Forde-Johnston, J. 1964. A hoard of flat axes from Moel Arthur, J Flintshire Hist Soc, 21, 99-100.
- Wynne Ffloukes, Re. W. 1850. Castra Clwydiana No. II. Moel Gaer, Part of Moel Fama, Arch Camb, New Series, I, 174-87.