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Pen-y-Gaer Camp, Aberglaslyn
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1765
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1765 (1765)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Beddgelert
- National Grid reference
- SH58664575
- Latitude
- 52.99037
- Longitude
- -4.10718
- Altitude
- 200 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.14 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1973); Other (1988-1993); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN051
- HER
- Gwynedd 3350
- National record
- record SH 54 NE 4; monument 93529
- Wikidata
- Q31054808
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, 744, London: HMSO.
- 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.