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Byrllysg Fort
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1698
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1698 (1698)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Merioneth
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dyffryn Ardudwy
- National Grid reference
- SH59602410
- Latitude
- 52.79612
- Longitude
- -4.08384
- Altitude
- 115 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.22 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1972); Other (1982-1994); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- ME064
- HER
- Gwynedd 1070
- National record
- record SH 52 SE 4; monument 302724
- Wikidata
- Q31054024
Sources
References
- Bowen E.G. and Gresham, C.A. 1967. History of Merioneth 1, Dolgellau, 261.
- 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.