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Caer Idris
Isle of Anglesey, Wales ยท Atlas WA1732
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1732 (1732)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Historic county
- Anglesey
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanidan
- National Grid reference
- SH49456797
- Latitude
- 53.18744
- Longitude
- -4.25470
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 4, SW 3, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.21 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1986); Other (1986); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1967-1970); Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- AN051
- HER
- Gwynedd 1561
- National record
- record SH 46 NE 16; monument 58125
- Wikidata
- Q31067868
Sources
References
- Lynch, F. 1991. Prehistoric Anglesey, Llangefni: Anglesey Antiquarian Society, 273-74.
- RCAHMW 1937 (reprinted 1960). Anglesey. A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, 103-5, 14, London: HMSO.
- Smith, G. H. 2005 , A Survey of Prehistoric Defended Enclosures in North West Wales 2004-2005: West Conwy, Gwynedd (Arfon) and Anglesey, 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.