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Caer Carreg-y-Fran, Cwm Glo
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1769
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1769 (1769)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanrug
- National Grid reference
- SH54756270
- Latitude
- 53.14158
- Longitude
- -4.17304
- Altitude
- 167 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
- 1.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1856); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1970); Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN058
- HER
- Gwynedd 3688
- National record
- record SH 56 SW 9; monument 93535
- Wikidata
- Q31054887
Sources
References
- Babbington, C. C. 1856. On Caer-Carreg-y-Fran, Caernarvonshire, Arch Camb, 56-59.
- Longueville Jones, H. 1856. Caer Carreg-y-fran, Llanrug, Caernarfonshire, Arch Camb, 96.
- RCAHMW 1960. Caernarvonshire Vol II: Central, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 1314, 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.