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Twyn-y-Parc
Isle of Anglesey, Wales ยท Atlas WA1762
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1762 (1762)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Historic county
- Anglesey
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bodorgan
- National Grid reference
- SH36816492
- Latitude
- 53.15633
- Longitude
- -4.44214
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and metalworking
- Investigations
- Excavation (1938); Other (1997); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1963-1970); Other (1986-1992); Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- AN049
- HER
- Gwynedd 3024
- National record
- record SH 36 SE 1; monument 93864
- Wikidata
- Q31068321
Sources
References
- Jones, S. 1997. Coastal Erosion Survey - Anglesey, Report No. 251, Bangor: Gwynedd Archaeological Trust.
- Lynch, F. 1991. Prehistoric Anglesey, Llangefni: Anglesey Antiquarian Society.
- RCAHMW 1937 (reprinted 1960). Anglesey. A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, 87-8, 4, 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.
- Williams, I. 1945. Recent Finds in Anglesey, Trans Anglesey Antiquarian Soc and Field Club, for 1945, 21-2.