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Nant-y-Castell, Llanbedrog
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1679
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1679 (1679)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanbedrog
- National Grid reference
- SH32153145
- Latitude
- 52.85429
- Longitude
- -4.49436
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall, rubble, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1900); Other (1960); Other (1971); Other (1987-2006); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN036
- HER
- Gwynedd 442
- National record
- record SH 33 SW 5
- Wikidata
- Q31053759
Sources
References
- Evans, J. G. 1918. Castellmarch, Arch Camb, vi, xvii, 304-5.
- RCAHMW 1964. Caernarvonshire Vol III: West, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 1578, 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.