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Carn Pentyrch, Llangybi
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1726
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1726 (1726)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanystumdwy
- National Grid reference
- SH42454177
- Latitude
- 52.95010
- Longitude
- -4.34654
- Altitude
- 222 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and wall-walk
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Excavation (1939); Other (1955); Other (2003); Other (2005); Other (1968-1972); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN055
- HER
- Gwynedd 1303
- National record
- record SH 44 SW 2; monument 93532
- Wikidata
- Q31054180
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 1262, London: HMSO.
- Lynch, F. 2002. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Gwynedd, London: HMSO, 197.
- Williams, W.W. 1873. Pentyrch, Carnarvonshire, Arch Camb, Vol 121, 154-157.
- 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.