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Mynydd Llwydiarth
Isle of Anglesey, Wales ยท Atlas WA1674
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1674 (1674)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Historic county
- Anglesey
- Parish, community, or townland
- Pentraeth
- National Grid reference
- SH53777849
- Latitude
- 53.28315
- Longitude
- -4.19492
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); Passage-way/Corridor (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- commercial forestry and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- Other (1970); Other (1999); Other (1930-1939); Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gwynedd 404
- National record
- record SH 57 NW 21; monument 300872
- Wikidata
- Q31067552
Sources
References
- Brooks, I. and Price, J. 1999. Penllyn Archaeological Assessment, Unpublished Forest Enterprise report, Forest Enterprise.
- Lynch, F. 1991. Prehistoric Anglesey, Llangefni: Anglesey Antiquarian Society, 267-268.
- RCAHMW 1937 (reprinted 1960). Anglesey. A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, 140, 6, 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.