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Moel Offrwm
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1780
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1780 (1780)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Merioneth
- Parish, community, or townland
- Brithdir and Llanfachreth
- National Grid reference
- SH74952100
- Latitude
- 52.77205
- Longitude
- -3.85512
- Altitude
- 405 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.73 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- guard chambers, annex, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); Recesses/Guard Chambers (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Other (1973); Other (1985); Other (1998); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888-1889); Other (1989-1994); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- ME021
- HER
- Gwynedd 4747
- National record
- record SH 72 SW 1; monument 303075
- Wikidata
- Q31054911
Sources
References
- Bowen, E.G. and Gresham, C.A. 1967. History of Merioneth 1, Dolgellau, 162-63.
- Lynch, F. 1995. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Gwynedd, London: HMSO, 197.
- 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.