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Pen-y-Castell, Maenan
Conwy, Wales ยท Atlas WA1689
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1689 (1689)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Conwy
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanddoged and Maenan
- National Grid reference
- SH79306660
- Latitude
- 53.18275
- Longitude
- -3.80770
- Altitude
- 152 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and hillslope
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- woodland, commercial forestry, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1951); Other (1992); Other (1988-2006); Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN041
- HER
- Gwynedd 686
- National record
- record SH 76 NE 2; monument 95301
- Wikidata
- Q31119226
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 609, 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.