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Cerrig-y-Ddinas, Llangelynin
Conwy, Wales ยท Atlas WA1687
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1687 (1687)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Conwy
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Henryd
- National Grid reference
- SH75427395
- Latitude
- 53.24789
- Longitude
- -3.86860
- Altitude
- 312 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1952); Other (1992); Other (1962-1969); Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gwynedd 652
- National record
- record SH 77 SE 1; monument 303107
- Wikidata
- Q31119124
Sources
References
- Bezant Lowe, W. 1924. Prehistoric Remains in North Caernarvonshire, Arch Camb, LXXIX, 90.
- RCAHMW 1956. Caernarvonshire Vol I: East, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 453, 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.