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Pen-y-Garreg, Clynnog
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1657
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1657 (1657)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Clynnog
- National Grid reference
- SH42684972
- Latitude
- 53.02157
- Longitude
- -4.34699
- Altitude
- 184 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and spur
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1954); Other (1968-1972); Other (1987-1989); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gwynedd 88
- National record
- record SH 44 NW 18; monument 302372
- Wikidata
- Q31053375
Sources
References
- RCAHMW 1960. Caernarvonshire Vol II: Central, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 824, London: HMSO.
- Smith, G.H. 2006. A survey of prehistoric defended enclosures in north-west Wales 2005-2006: Gwynedd Dwyfor and Meirionnydd. Report No 634. Part I: Survey Report. Bangor: Gwynedd Archaeological Trust.
- Waddington, K. 2013. The Settlements of Northwest Wales: From the Late Bronze Age to the Early Medieval Period, Cardiff: University of Wales Press.