Location
- Atlas number
- WA1725 (1725)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Porthmadog
- National Grid reference
- SH54953890
- Latitude
- 52.92784
- Longitude
- -4.15934
- Altitude
- 262 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1955); Other (1963); Other (1996); Other (1993-1996); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN059
- HER
- Gwynedd 1290
- National record
- record SH 53 NW 18; monument 300956
- Wikidata
- Q31054165
Sources
References
- RCAHMW 1960. Caernarvonshire Vol II: Central, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 1348, 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.