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Pen-y-Gaer, Llanbedr-y-Cennin
Conwy, Wales ยท Atlas WA1688
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1688 (1688)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Conwy
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Caerhun
- National Grid reference
- SH75006934
- Latitude
- 53.20638
- Longitude
- -3.87308
- Altitude
- 380 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 3, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 3.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- chevaux de frise, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- metalworking
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1773); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Excavation (1905); Excavation (1939); Other (1967); Other (1992); Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN023
- HER
- Gwynedd 663
- National record
- record SH 76 NW 2; monument 95289
- Wikidata
- Q31119216
Sources
References
- Gardner, W. 1906 Note on the Defences of Pen y Gaer, Arch Camb, 6th series, 257-267.
- Hughes, H. 1906 Exploration of Pen-y-gaer, above Llanbedr-y-cennin, Arch Camb, 6th series, 241-256.
- Lynch, F. 1995. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Gwynedd, London: HMSO, 72-3.
- RCAHMW 1956. Caernarvonshire Vol I: East, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 315 , 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.