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Moel Fodig
Denbighshire, Wales · Atlas WA1178
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1178 (1178)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Historic county
- Merioneth
- Parish, community, or townland
- Corwen
- National Grid reference
- SJ0961045670
- Latitude
- 53.00068
- Longitude
- -3.34839
- Altitude
- 230 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); In-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1874); Earthwork Survey (2010); Geophysical Survey (2010); Other (2012); Excavation (2011-2013)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 100792
- National record
- record SJ 04 NE; monument 306594
- Wikidata
- Q31118636
Sources
References
- Bowen, E.G. and Gresham, C.A. 1967. History of Merioneth 1, Dolgellau, 139-40.
- Brooks, I.P., Engineering Archaeological Sevices 2010. Moel Fodig geophysical survey, EAS Survey Report 2010/14.
- Brooks, I.P., Engineering Archaeological Sevices 2010. Survey report: Moel Fodig, EAS Survey Report 2010/19.
- Brown, I. and Karl, R. 2010. Caer Drewyn and its Environs _ survey and desktop analyses, 2009-2010 Preliminary Report, Bangor Studies in Archaeology, Report No. 3, Bangor: Bangor University School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology.
- Karl, R. and Brown, I. 2011. Caer Drewyn and its Environs. Site survey and analyses 2010-2011. Excavations at Moel Fodig Hillfort, August 2011. Interim Report, Bangor Studies in Archaeology, Report No. 5, Bangor: Bangor University School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology.
- Morton Williams, S., Moller, K., Brown, I. and Karl, R. 2012. Hillforts of North Wales: Moel Fodig excavations, 2011-2012, Bangor Studies in Archaeology, Report No. 7, Bangor: Bangor University School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology.