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Caer-y-Twr, Mynydd Twr (Holyhead Mountain).
Isle of Anglesey, Wales ยท Atlas WA1738
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1738 (1738)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Historic county
- Anglesey
- Parish, community, or townland
- Trearddur
- National Grid reference
- SH219830
- Latitude
- 53.31405
- Longitude
- -4.67422
- Altitude
- 220 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 6.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and wall-walk
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- rectangular structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1937); Other (2005); Other (2004-2005); Excavation (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- AN019
- HER
- Gwynedd 1760
- National record
- record SH 28 SW 5; monument 93839
- Wikidata
- Q31067927
Sources
References
- Brown, I. 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales, Oxford: Windgather Press/Oxbow Books.
- Gardner, W. 1934. Caer y Twr, a Hillfort on Holy Island, Anglesey, Arch Camb, 89 (1934), 156-73.
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1965. Early Iron Age, in eds Foster, I.LL and Daniel, G., Prehistoric and Early Wales, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 136.
- Houlder, C. 1974. Wales: an archaeological guide, 42-43, London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 42-3.
- Lynch, F. 1991. Prehistoric Anglesey, Llangefni: Anglesey Antiquarian Society, 263-66.
- Lynch, F. 1995. A guide to Ancient and Historic Wales - Gwynedd, London: HMSO, 66-7.
- RCAHMW 1937 (reprinted 1960). Anglesey. A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, 24, 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.