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Ynys For
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1748
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1748 (1748)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Merioneth
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanfrothen
- National Grid reference
- SH59934276
- Latitude
- 52.96384
- Longitude
- -4.08698
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- metal
- Investigations
- Other (1973); Other (1998); Other (1996-1999); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- ME265
- HER
- Gwynedd 2392
- National record
- record SH 54 SE 44; monument 302733
- Wikidata
- Q31054758
Sources
References
- Bowen E.G. and Gresham, C.A. 1967. History of Merioneth 1, Dolgellau, 144, 167.
- Jones, S. and Thompson, D. 1997. Deserted Rural Settlement in Western Caernarfonshire, GAT Report 247.
- 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.