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Moel y Gaer, Llanbedr
Denbighshire, Wales · Atlas WA1171
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1171 (1171)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Historic county
- Denbighshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd
- National Grid reference
- SJ14906175
- Latitude
- 53.14606
- Longitude
- -3.27384
- Altitude
- 345 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.63 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, vitrification, and other burning
- Also recorded
- chevaux de frise, annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); Over-lapping (North east); In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC and 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- pottery and metalworking
- Investigations
- Other (1849); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1874); Excavation (2009); Other (2012); Other (2006-2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- DE010
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 100607
- National record
- record SJ 16 SW; monument 306900
- Wikidata
- Q31118712
Sources
References
- Brown, I. 2004. Discovering a Welsh landscape. Archaeology in the Clwydian Range, Bollington: Windgather Press.
- Davies, Canon Ellis 1929: The prehistoric and Roman remains of Denbighshire, Cardiff: William Lewis.
- 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.
- Gale, F. 1991. The Iron Age, in eds Manley, J., Grenter, S. and Gale, F., The archaeology of Clwyd, Mold: Clwyd Archaeology Service, Clwyd County Council.
- Gardner, W 1926. the native hillforts of North Wales and their defences, Arch Camb, 7th Series, 6, 221-82.
- Karl, R. and Butler, H. 2009. Moel y Gaer, Llanbedr, Dyffryn, Clwyd. Excavations summer 2009. Preliminary report. University of Bangor, unpublished.
- Wynne Ffloukes, Re. W. 1850. Castra Clwydiana No. II. Moel Gaer, Part of Moel Fama, Arch Camb, New Series, I, 174-87.
- Davies. 1929. 'Prehistoric & Roman Remains of Denbighshire', 186-9.
- Recorded as part of Uplands Initiative Survey. W B Horton, Hayman & Horton, 15/06/2007.
- RCAHMW, 16 September 2008.