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Bryn-y-Castell, Ffestiniog
Gwynedd, Wales · Atlas WA1731
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1731 (1731)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Merioneth
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ffestiniog
- National Grid reference
- SH72824298
- Latitude
- 52.96903
- Longitude
- -3.89527
- Altitude
- 370 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
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); Blocked (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- C14 and Other
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures, rectangular stone structures, and other roundhouse evidence
- Interior excavation
- postholes, roundhouses, and rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and metalworking
- Investigations
- Other (1985); Other (2014); Excavation (1975-1985); Other (1979-1994); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- ME104
- HER
- Gwynedd 1489
- National record
- record SH 74 SW; monument 95496
- Wikidata
- Q31054396
Sources
References
- Blackford, J. J., Chambers, F. M., and Mighall, T. 1990. Bryn-y-Castell, Late Bronze Age Clearances or Climatic Change?, Arch in Wales, 30, 14-16.
- Bowen E.G. and Gresham, C.A. 1967. History of Merioneth, 1, Dolgellau, 164.
- Chambers, F. and Mighall, T. 1989. The Environmental Impact of Ironworking at Bryn Y Castell Hill Fort, Merioneth, Arch in Wales, 29, 17-21.
- Crew, P. 1984. Prehistory: Bryn Y Castell, Arch in Wales, 24, 37-43.
- Crew, P. 1986. Bryn y Castell hillfort, In eds Scott, B.G. and Cleere, H., The Crafts of the Blacksmith, UISPP Comite pour la Siderurgie Ancienne and the Ulster Museum, Belfast, 91-100
- Lynch, F. 1995. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Gwynedd, London: HMSO, 80-1.
- 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.