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Moel Offrwm Lower Camp
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1781
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1781 (1781)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Merioneth
- Parish, community, or townland
- Brithdir and Llanfachreth
- National Grid reference
- SH74802060
- Latitude
- 52.76842
- Longitude
- -3.85719
- Altitude
- 320 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.14 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (South); Oblique (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1973); Other (1985); Excavation (1926-1928); Other (1989-1994); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- ME035
- HER
- Gwynedd 4749
- National record
- record SH 72 SW 3; monument 303074
- Wikidata
- Q31054935
Sources
References
- Bowen, E.G. and Gresham, C.A. 1967. History of Merioneth 1, Dolgellau, 162-63.
- Chitty, L. F. 1929. Excavations in Moel Offrwm Lower Camp, Llanfachreth, Bull Board Celtic Stud, IV, 279.
- 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.