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Bryn Alun Camp
Wrexham, Wales ยท Atlas WA1525
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1525 (1525)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Historic county
- Denbighshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llay
- National Grid reference
- SJ33125370
- Latitude
- 53.07631
- Longitude
- -2.99979
- Altitude
- 67 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); Excavation (2007); Geophysical Survey (2008); Other (2004-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- DE057
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 100384
- National record
- record SJ 35 SW; monument 94754
- Wikidata
- Q31119262
Sources
References
- Burnham, H. 1995. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Clwyd and Powys, London: HMSO, 61-2.
- Davies, Canon Ellis 1929. The prehistoric and Roman remains of Denbighshire, Cardiff: William Lewis, 156.
- Gondek, M. 2008. Report on the geophysical survey at Bryn Alyn Fort, Llay, Wrexham, University of Chester Report No. 2008/1, Chester: University of Chester.