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Pen y Gaer, Cilfodan, Bethesda
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1665
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1665 (1665)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bethesda
- National Grid reference
- SH62826725
- Latitude
- 53.18460
- Longitude
- -4.05443
- Altitude
- 250 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
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.19 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1948); Other (1969); Other (1993); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gwynedd 261
- National record
- record SH 66 NW 6; monument 300987
- Wikidata
- Q31053400
Sources
References
- Flook, H. 1993. Mynydd Llandegai to Bethesda Main Link, GAT Report No. 069, Bangor: Gwynedd Archaeological Trust.
- RCAHMW 1956. Caernarvonshire Vol I: East, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 491, 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.