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Cefn Ddwysarn Camp
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1764
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1764 (1764)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Merioneth
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llandderfel
- National Grid reference
- SH96703820
- Latitude
- 52.93122
- Longitude
- -3.53831
- Altitude
- 281 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.38 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- Other (2009); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gwynedd 3212
- National record
- record SH 93 NE; monument 303415
- Wikidata
- Q31054122
Sources
References
- 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.