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Conion
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1711
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1711 (1711)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Aberdaron
- National Grid reference
- SH23002831
- Latitude
- 52.82316
- Longitude
- -4.62840
- Altitude
- 185 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- 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
- Enclosed area
- 0.22 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes
- Finds
- lithics and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Excavation (1960); Other (1960); Other (1972); Other (1979); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gwynedd 1207
- National record
- record SH 22 NW 18
- Wikidata
- Q31053591
Sources
References
- RCAHMW 1964. Caernarvonshire Vol III: West, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 1743, London: HMSO.
- 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.