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Moel y Gaer, Llantysilio
Denbighshire, Wales · Atlas WA1478
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1478 (1478)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Historic county
- Denbighshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bryneglwys
- National Grid reference
- SJ1670546365
- Latitude
- 53.00812
- Longitude
- -3.24299
- Altitude
- 504 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.95 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East); Passage-way/Corridor (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- lithics and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Other (2004); Earthwork Survey (2007); Geophysical Survey (2009); Excavation (2010); Other (2012); Other (2006-2011)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 101366
- National record
- record SJ 14 NE; monument 306813
- Wikidata
- Q31118671
Sources
References
- Brooks, I.P. and Laws, K. 2007. Heather and Hillfort survey report: Moel y Gaer, Llantysilio, EAS Client Report 2007/01.
- Brooks, I.P. and Laws, K. 2009. Moel y Gaer, Llantysilio: Geophysical survey, EAS Client Report 2009/10.
- Brown, I. 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales, Oxford: Windgather Press/ Oxbow Books.
- Burnham, H. 1995. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Clwyd and Powys, 64, London: HMSO, 64.
- Davies, Canon Ellis 1929. The prehistoric and Roman remains of Denbighshire, Cardiff: William Lewis, 366.
- Grant, I. 2010. Moel y Gaer Hillfort, Llanytysilio, Denbighshire. Archaeological excavation, CPAT Report No 1059, Welshpool: CPAT.
- Grant, I. and Jones, N.W. 2012. The investigation of two roundhouses within Moel-y-Gaer hillfort, Llantysilio, Denbighshire. Archaeol Wales, 52, 49-55.
- Jones, N.W. 2004. Heather and Hillforts. Archaeological condition survey, CPAT Report No. 654, Welshpool: CPAT.
- Mrowiec, H. (ed) 2011. Heather and Hillforts of the Clwydian Range and Llantysilio Mountains, Ruthin: Heather and Hillforts Partnership Board, Denbighshire County Council.