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Caer Estyn
Flintshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1162
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1162 (1162)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Historic county
- Flintshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hope
- National Grid reference
- SJ314575
- Latitude
- 53.11024
- Longitude
- -3.02628
- Altitude
- 153 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 2.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Excavation (1957); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879-1880)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- FL066
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 101279
- National record
- record SJ 35 NW; monument 92942
- Wikidata
- Q31118597
Sources
References
- Ellis Davies 1949. Prehistoric and Roman remains of Flintshire, Cardiff: William Lewis, 197-99.
- Hayes, P. and Sandford Evans, J. 1960. Hope: Hill Fort of Caer Estyn, Flintshire Hist Soc Publications, XVIII, 171-175.