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Pen-y-Bryn, Cymer
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1773
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1773 (1773)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Merioneth
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanelltyd
- National Grid reference
- SH72761946
- Latitude
- 52.75770
- Longitude
- -3.88697
- Altitude
- 122 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.44 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory, knoll or outcrop, and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1937-1961); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gwynedd 4107
- National record
- record SH 71 NW 5; monument 303039
- Wikidata
- Q31054234
Sources
References
- Bowen E.G. and Gresham, C.A. 1967. History of Merioneth 1, Dolgellau, 164.
- 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.