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Careg-y-Llam, Pistyll
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1724
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1724 (1724)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Pistyll
- National Grid reference
- SH33404365
- Latitude
- 52.96425
- Longitude
- -4.48208
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 3, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Passage-way/Corridor (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1954); Other (1971); Other (1993); Other (1954-1955); Other (2005-2006); Other (1934)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gwynedd 1261
- National record
- record SH 34 SW 1
- Wikidata
- Q31053704
Sources
References
- Hogg, A. H. A. 1957. A fortified round hut at Carreg y Llam, near Nevin, Arch Camb, Vol. 106, 46-55.
- RCAHMW 1964. Caernarvonshire Vol III: West, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 1699, London: HMSO.
- Riley, H. and Smith, G. 1993. Coastal Erosion Survey: Aberdaron Bay to the Great Orme, GAT Report No. 079, 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.