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Ynys-y-Fydlyn
Isle of Anglesey, Wales ยท Atlas WA1749
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1749 (1749)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Historic county
- Anglesey
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cylch-y-Garn
- National Grid reference
- SH29189175
- Latitude
- 53.39486
- Longitude
- -4.57055
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1987); Other (1989); Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gwynedd 4361
- National record
- record SH 29 SE; monument 54410
- Wikidata
- Q31067625
Sources
References
- Jones, S. 1997. Coastal Erosion Survey, GAR Report 251, Bangor: Gwynedd Archaeological Trust.
- 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.