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Mynydd-y-Gaer
Conwy, Wales ยท Atlas WA1221
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1221 (1221)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Conwy
- Historic county
- Denbighshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llannefdydd
- National Grid reference
- SH973718
- Latitude
- 53.23326
- Longitude
- -3.54012
- Altitude
- 278 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (South east); Over-lapping (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- DE082
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 101991
- National record
- record SH 97 SE
- Wikidata
- Q31119199
Sources
References
- Burnham, H. 1995. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Clwyd and Powys, London: HMSO, 54-5.
- Davies, Canon Ellis 1929. The prehistoric and Roman remains of Denbighshire, Cardiff: William Lewis, 291.