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Castell Mawr, Rhoslefain
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1735
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1735 (1735)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Merioneth
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangelynin
- National Grid reference
- SH58020478
- Latitude
- 52.62214
- Longitude
- -4.09890
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.44 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall, counterscarp bank, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (1972); Other (1985); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- ME073
- HER
- Gwynedd 1739
- National record
- record SH 50 SE 11; monument 302690
- Wikidata
- Q31054667
Sources
References
- Bowen, E.G. and Gresham, C.A. 1967. History of Merioneth 1, Dolgellau, 153.
- RCAHMW 1921. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VI, County of Merioneth, 128, 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.