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Pier Camp, Bangor
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1745
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1745 (1745)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bangor
- National Grid reference
- SH58087285
- Latitude
- 53.23365
- Longitude
- -4.12781
- Altitude
- 70 m
Form and condition
- Type
- 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
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1937-1961); Other (1985-1996); Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN073
- HER
- Gwynedd 2299
- National record
- record SH 57 SE 1; monument 302712
- Wikidata
- Q31054695
Sources
References
- RCAHMW 1960. Caernarvonshire Vol II: Central, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, 699, 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.