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Pen-y-Gaer, Afon Soch
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1713
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1713 (1713)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanengan
- National Grid reference
- SH29862823
- Latitude
- 52.82465
- Longitude
- -4.52666
- Altitude
- 80 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.13 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1958); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gwynedd 1236
- National record
- record SH 22 NE 1; monument 300985
- Wikidata
- Q31053653
Sources
References
- Alcock, L. 1965. Hillforts in Wales and the Marches, Antiquity, Vol. XXXIX, No. 155.
- RCAHMW 1964. Caernarvonshire Vol III: West, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 1599, 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.