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Pen y Gaer, Llanaelhaearn
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1728
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1728 (1728)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanaelhaearn
- National Grid reference
- SH42904550
- Latitude
- 52.98373
- Longitude
- -4.34166
- Altitude
- 389 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- pottery and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Excavation (1939); Other (1956); Other (1972); Other (2005); Other (1963-1976); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN052
- HER
- Gwynedd 1314
- National record
- record SH 44 NW 6; monument 93530
- Wikidata
- Q31054344
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 1057, 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.