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Caer Drewyn
Denbighshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1179
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1179 (1179)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Historic county
- Merioneth
- Parish, community, or townland
- Corwen
- National Grid reference
- SJ0876544395
- Latitude
- 52.98908
- Longitude
- -3.36061
- Altitude
- 294 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort and hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 3.45 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.55 ha, 2.9 ha, 3.45 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and wall-walk
- Also recorded
- guard chambers, annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); Passage-way/Corridor (North east); Recesses/Guard Chambers (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and hillslope
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms, other roundhouse evidence, and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1600); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Other (1977); Geophysical Survey (2006); Earthwork Survey (2006); Geophysical Survey (2008); Geophysical Survey (2011); Other (2012); Other (1665-1693); Other (2006-2011); Other
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 100810
- National record
- record SJ 04 SE; monument 95431
- Wikidata
- Q31118642
Sources
References
- Brooks, I.P. and Laws, K. 2006. Topographical and geophysical surveys of Caer Drewyn Hillfort, EAS Client Report.
- Brooks, I.P. 2011. Survey report: Fron Newydd and Caer Drewyn, EAS Survey Report 2011/2012.
- Brown, I. and Wintle, W. 2008. Geophysical survey of Caer Drewyn Hillfort, Denbighshire, October 2008 - Interim results, Institute of Archaeology unpublished report, Oxford.
- Brown, I. 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales, Oxford: Windgather Press/Oxbow Books.
- 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.
- Gardner, W. 1922. The ancient hill fort known as Caer Drewyn, Merionethshire, Arch Camb, 77, 108-125.
- Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire 1921. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, IV, County of Merioneth, London: HMSO.