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Caer Euni

Gwynedd, Wales · Atlas WA1734

Caer Euni is a partial contour fort in Llandderfel, Gwynedd, Wales.

Other names on the record: Cefn Caer-Euni, Caer Crwyini, Caer Eini, Kaer Kyreini, Cerwyini, and Caerau-Crwyni.

It is recorded as extant, with a bivallate rampart form, surface evidence of stone wall and counterscarp bank, and an enclosed area of 0.96 hectares.

Banks or ramparts are the remains most likely to be visible.

The topographic record places it on a ridge and at 365 m.

The aspect is recorded as level.

Recorded land use includes pasture.

Dating evidence is recorded for 400 BC–AD 50 (C14). Reliability is recorded as B - Medium.

A scheduled monument number is recorded (ME015).

Location

Atlas number
WA1734 (1734)
Country
Wales
Current county or unitary authority
Gwynedd
Historic county
Merioneth
Parish, community, or townland
Llandderfel
National Grid reference
SJ00054130
Latitude
52.95971
Longitude
-3.48944
Altitude
365 m

Form and condition

Type
partial contour fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
bivallate
Complete rampart circuit
Yes
Number of ramparts
2
Number of ditches
1
Possible original entrances
1
Breaks through the ramparts
2
Enclosed area
0.96 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
stone wall and counterscarp bank
Enclosing works, excavated
timber-framed wall and vitrification
Also recorded
multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Entrance forms
Outworks (North east)

Landscape

Topographic position
ridge
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture

Dating

Dating
400 BC–AD 50
Dating evidence
C14
Dating reliability
B - Medium

Interior and investigation

Interior surface
other roundhouse evidence
Investigations
1st Identified Map Depiction (1887-1889); Other (1989-1994); Other (2005-2006); Other (None-None); Excavation (2001-2017)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
ME015
HER
Gwynedd 1580
National record
record SJ 04 SW; monument 93712
Wikidata
Q31054644

Sources

References

  1. Bowen, E.G. and Gresham, C.A. 1967. History of Merioneth 1, Dolgellau, 137-39.
  2. Cadw 2009. Hillforts and Homesteads: A New View of the Iron Age , Heritage in Wales, No. 42, 9.
  3. Flook, H. and Riley, H.F. 1994. Merllwyn Gwyn y Afon A 494 Trunk Road, Report, Gwynedd Archaeolgical Trust Bangor.
  4. Hogg, A.H.A. 1965. Early Iron Age, in eds Foster, I.LL and Daniel, G., Prehistoric and Early Wales, 135, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 135.
  5. RCAHMW 1921. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VI, County of Merioneth, 174, London: HMSO.
  6. Houlder, C. 1974. Wales: an archaeological guide, London: Faber and Faber. 84-6.
  7. 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.
  8. Waddington, K. 2013. The Settlements of Northwest Wales: From the Late Bronze Age to the Early Medieval Period, Cardiff: University of Wales Press.