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Carn Fadrun
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1678
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1678 (1678)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tudweiliog
- National Grid reference
- SH28003520
- Latitude
- 52.88666
- Longitude
- -4.55791
- Altitude
- 371 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 10.7 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 4.8 ha, 10.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures, rectangular stone structures, and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1188); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1958); Other (1986); Other (2005); Other (1951-1969); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN011
- HER
- Gwynedd 425
- National record
- record SH 23 NE 2; monument 95275
- Wikidata
- Q31053740
Sources
References
- Avent, R. 1994. Castles of the Welsh Princes, Chateau Gaillard, XVI.
- RCAHMW 1964. Caernarvonshire Vol III: West, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 1650, 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.