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Caer, Glascoed
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1768
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1768 (1768)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanddeiniolen
- National Grid reference
- SH54776440
- Latitude
- 53.15684
- Longitude
- -4.17456
- Altitude
- 149 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.13 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- Other (1970); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1985-1996); Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN1149
- HER
- Gwynedd 3686
- National record
- record SH 56 SW 4; monument 302578
- Wikidata
- Q31054861
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, No 1171, London: HMSO.
- Smith, G. 1995. Preliminary Report on Archaeological Evaluation of Outlying Enclosure at Caer, Llanddeiniolen, GAT Report No. 165, 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.