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Moel Faner
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1782
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1782 (1782)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Merioneth
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanelltyd
- National Grid reference
- SH73272043
- Latitude
- 52.76653
- Longitude
- -3.87979
- Altitude
- 270 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.21 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches and gang working
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (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
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (2009); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- ME267
- HER
- Gwynedd 4750
- National record
- record SH 72 SW 4; monument 303054
- Wikidata
- Q31054956
Sources
References
- Bowen E.G. and Gresham, C.A. 1967. History of Merioneth, 1, Dolgellau, 152-3.
- 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.