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Garn Saethon
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1676
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1676 (1676)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Buan
- National Grid reference
- SH29813371
- Latitude
- 52.87385
- Longitude
- -4.53026
- Altitude
- 210 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.34 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1957); Other (1972); Other (2009); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN408
- HER
- Gwynedd 415
- National record
- record SH 23 SE 5; monument 302283
- Wikidata
- Q31053724
Sources
References
- RCAHMW 1964. Caernarvonshire Vol III: West, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 1606, 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.