Home / Wales / Gwynedd / Maes-y-Gaer Camp, Aber
Maes-y-Gaer Camp, Aber
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1664
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1664 (1664)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Abergwyngregyn
- National Grid reference
- SH66327251
- Latitude
- 53.23274
- Longitude
- -4.00429
- Altitude
- 223 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
- Enclosed area
- 0.63 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1948); Other (1973); Other (1985-1996); Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN038
- HER
- Gwynedd 230
- National record
- record SH 67 SE; monument 95298
- Wikidata
- Q31053613
Sources
References
- Countryside Council for Wales 1985, Reserve Management Plan - Coedydd Aber, Newtown: Countryside Council for Wales.
- RCAHMW 1956. Caernarvonshire Vol I: East, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 12, London: HMSO.
- Smith, G. H. 2005 , A Survey of Prehistoric Defended Enclosures in North West Wales 2004-2005: West Conwy, Gwynedd (Arfon) and Anglesey, 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.