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Craig y Castell Ii, Brithdir
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1742
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1742 (1742)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Merioneth
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dolgellau
- National Grid reference
- SH69231732
- Latitude
- 52.73763
- Longitude
- -3.93839
- Altitude
- 295 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and unfinished work
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1973); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gwynedd 1820
- National record
- record SH 61 NE 2; monument 302971
- Wikidata
- Q31054001
Sources
References
- Bowen E.G. and Gresham, C.A. 1967. History of Merioneth, 1, Dolgellau, 165.
- RCAHMW 1921. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VI, County of Merioneth, 11, 32, 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.