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y Werthyr, Bryngwran
Isle of Anglesey, Wales ยท Atlas WA1766
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1766 (1766)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Historic county
- Anglesey
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bodffordd
- National Grid reference
- SH37457820
- Latitude
- 53.27579
- Longitude
- -4.43935
- Altitude
- 43.3 m
Form and condition
- Type
- marsh fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (1963); Other (1986); Other (2004-2005); Excavation (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- AN042
- HER
- Gwynedd 3505
- National record
- record SH 37 NE 6; monument 95549
- Wikidata
- Q31068449
Sources
References
- Livens, R. G. 1965. Y Werthyr, Arch in Wales, 5, 9.
- Livens, R. G. 1976. A Bronze Terret from Anglesey, Welsh Antiquity, 149.
- RCAHMW 1937 (reprinted 1960). Anglesey. A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, 41-2, a(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.