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Castell Pared Mawr
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1712
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1712 (1712)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanengan
- National Grid reference
- SH30392468
- Latitude
- 52.79294
- Longitude
- -4.51696
- Altitude
- 91 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1972); Other (1996); Other (1987-1994); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN103
- HER
- Gwynedd 1235
- National record
- record SH 32 SW 2; monument 95330
- Wikidata
- Q31054149
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 1598, London: HMSO.
- Dutton, L. A. & Gwyn, D. 1995 , Coastal Erosion Survey - Aberdaron to Aberdyfi, GAT Report No.198, Bangor: Gwynedd Archaeological Trust.
- 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.