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y Werthyr, Llanddeusant
Isle of Anglesey, Wales ยท Atlas WA1743
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1743 (1743)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Historic county
- Anglesey
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tref Alaw
- National Grid reference
- SH36338431
- Latitude
- 53.33031
- Longitude
- -4.45928
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.65 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1818); Other (1889); Other (1969); Other (1987); Geophysical Survey (2005); Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- AN158
- HER
- Gwynedd 2077
- National record
- record SH 38 SE 6
- Wikidata
- Q31068041
Sources
References
- Lynch, F. 1970. Prehistoric Anglesey, Llangefni: Anglesey Antiquarian Society, 232.
- RCAHMW 1937 (reprinted 1960). Anglesey. A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, 114, 2, 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.