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Castell Odo, Aberdaron
Gwynedd, Wales · Atlas WA1693
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1693 (1693)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Aberdaron
- National Grid reference
- SH18702846
- Latitude
- 52.82308
- Longitude
- -4.69223
- Altitude
- 146 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and palisade
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery and environmental material
- Investigations
- Other (2005); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1958-1959); Other (2005-2006); Excavation (1930); Excavation (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN045
- HER
- Gwynedd 767
- National record
- monument 95305
- Wikidata
- Q31053893
Sources
References
- Alcock, L. 1960. Castell Odo. An embanked settlement on Mynydd Ystum, near Aberdaron, Caernarvonshire, Arch Camb, 109, 78-135.
- Breese , C.E.1933. Castell Odo, Arch Camb, 87, 372-85.
- Houlder, C. 1978. Wales an archaeological guide, London: Faber and Faber, 48-9.
- Lynch, F. 1995. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Gwynedd, London: HMSO, 78-80.
- 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.