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Pen-y-Gaer, Llanbedrog
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1680
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1680 (1680)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanbedrog
- National Grid reference
- SH 3233 3147
- Latitude
- 52.85453
- Longitude
- -4.49170
- Altitude
- 73 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.38 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
- Water source
- pool
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1959); Other (1971); Other (1995); Other (1998); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN221
- HER
- Gwynedd 443
- National record
- record SH 33 SW 6; monument 93699
- Wikidata
- Q31053781
Sources
References
- Gwenogwryn, E. J. 1923. Castellmarch, Arch Camb, 78, 305.
- RCAHMW 1964. Caernarvonshire Vol III: West, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 1577, London: HMSO.
- Smith, G. 1998. Hut Circle Settlement Survey, Unpublished survey report GAT, Bangor: Gwynedd Archaeological Trust.
- 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.