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y Gaer, Ystum Gwadnaeth
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1777
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1777 (1777)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Merioneth
- Parish, community, or townland
- Brithdir and Llanfachreth
- National Grid reference
- SH77392190
- Latitude
- 52.78069
- Longitude
- -3.81931
- Altitude
- 321 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1973); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888-1889); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gwynedd 4744
- National record
- record SH 72 SE 3; monument 303120
- Wikidata
- Q31054293
Sources
References
- Bowen, E.G. and Gresham, C.A. 1967. History of Merioneth 1, Dolgellau, 166.
- RCAHMW 1921. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VI, County of Merioneth, 104, 310, London: HMSO.
- 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.