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Llechlwyd Tonfanau, Tywyn
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1740
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1740 (1740)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Merioneth
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangelynin
- National Grid reference
- SH57230316
- Latitude
- 52.60738
- Longitude
- -4.10987
- Altitude
- 76 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1914); 1st Identified Written Reference (1933); Other (1987-1994); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gwynedd 1777
- National record
- record SH 50 SE 12; monument 302649
- Wikidata
- Q31053983
Sources
References
- Gruffydd, A. and Riley, H. 1992. Minerals: An Archaeological Assessment of Mineral Extraction Sites and Resources within the Snowdonia National Park, GAT Report No. 023b, Bangor: Gwynedd Archaeological Trust.
- 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.