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y Foel, Pontllynfi
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1663
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1663 (1663)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Clynnog
- National Grid reference
- SH45005070
- Latitude
- 53.03105
- Longitude
- -4.31290
- Altitude
- 221 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.57 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, counterscarp bank, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1954); Other (1972); Other (1987-1993); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN115
- HER
- Gwynedd 203
- National record
- record SH 45 SE 6; monument 95338
- Wikidata
- Q31053536
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 823, London: HMSO.
- St. Joseph, J. K. 1961. Aerial Reconnaissance in Wales, Antiquity, 35, 264 Pl. XXXV.
- 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.