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Caer Bach
Conwy, Wales ยท Atlas WA1682
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1682 (1682)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Conwy
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Henryd
- National Grid reference
- SH 7443 7297
- Latitude
- 53.23885
- Longitude
- -3.88304
- Altitude
- 410 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.21 ha, 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- Other (1951); Other (1992); Other (2004); Other (1988-1995); Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN125
- HER
- Gwynedd 563
- National record
- record SH 77 SW 16; monument 94907
- Wikidata
- Q31119200
Sources
References
- RCAHMW 1956. Caernarvonshire Vol I: East, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 452, London: HMSO.
- Smith, G. , 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.