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Pen y Gaer, Efenechtyd
Denbighshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1183
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1183 (1183)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Historic county
- Denbighshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Efenechtyd
- National Grid reference
- SJ10575481
- Latitude
- 53.08298
- Longitude
- -3.33662
- Altitude
- 230 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 2.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1874)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- DE045
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 100922
- National record
- record SJ 15 SW 14; monument 306852
- Wikidata
- Q31118726
Sources
References
- Davies, Canon Ellis 1929. The prehistoric and Roman remains of Denbighshire, Cardiff: William Lewis.