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Castell Cawr
Conwy, Wales ยท Atlas WA1169
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1169 (1169)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Conwy
- Historic county
- Denbighshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Abergele
- National Grid reference
- SH93607672
- Latitude
- 53.27674
- Longitude
- -3.59718
- Altitude
- 170 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Also recorded
- guard chambers
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (West); Recesses/Guard Chambers (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1872)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- DE114
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 100495
- National record
- record SH 97 NW 15; monument 94799
- Wikidata
- Q31119164
Sources
References
- Brown, I. 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, 193.
- Davies, Canon Ellis 1929. The prehistoric and Roman remains of Denbighshire, Cardiff: William Lewis, 35.
- Forde-Johnston, J. 1964. Field work on the hillforts of North Wales, Flintshire Hist Soc Pubs, 21, 1-20.