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Moel Goedog Camp
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1696
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1696 (1696)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Merioneth
- Parish, community, or townland
- Talsarnau
- National Grid reference
- SH61373250
- Latitude
- 52.87204
- Longitude
- -4.06117
- Altitude
- 369 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.48 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1985); Other (1982-1994); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- ME059
- HER
- Gwynedd 1000
- National record
- record SH 63 SW; monument 302801
- Wikidata
- Q31053935
Sources
References
- Bowen E.G. and Gresham, C.A. 1967. History of Merioneth ,1, Dolgellau, 148-49.
- Lynch, F. 1995. Gwynedd - A guide to ancient and historic Wales, London: HMSO, 81-2.
- 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.