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Pared y Cefn Hir
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1774
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1774 (1774)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Merioneth
- Parish, community, or townland
- Arthog
- National Grid reference
- SH66461510
- Latitude
- 52.71701
- Longitude
- -3.97849
- Altitude
- 340 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour 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
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1985); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gwynedd 4149
- National record
- record SH 61 NE 3; monument 302914
- Wikidata
- Q31054247
Sources
References
- Bowen E.G. and Gresham, C.A. 1967. History of Merioneth, 1, Dolgellau, 166.
- 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.