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Craig yr y chain
Denbighshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1182
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1182 (1182)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Historic county
- Merioneth
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llandrillo
- National Grid reference
- SJ02453660
- Latitude
- 52.91791
- Longitude
- -3.45231
- Altitude
- 274 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial 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
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- DE230
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 100842
- National record
- record SJ 03 NW 13; monument 306564
- Wikidata
- Q31118716
Sources
References
- Bowen E.G. and Gresham, C.A. 1967. History of Merioneth ,1, Dolgellau, 168-70.
- Burnham, H. 1995. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Clwyd and Powys, London: HMSO, 63-4.