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Castell-y-Gaer, Llangelynin
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1783
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1783 (1783)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Merioneth
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangelynin
- National Grid reference
- SH59200900
- Latitude
- 52.66036
- Longitude
- -4.08329
- Altitude
- 130 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.16 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1973); Other (1993-2005); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- ME053
- HER
- Gwynedd 4919
- National record
- record SH 50 NE 3; monument 302716
- Wikidata
- Q31054972
Sources
References
- Bowen, E.G. and Gresham, C.A. 1967. History of Merioneth,1, Dolgellau, 153-55.
- RCAHMW 1921. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VI, County of Merioneth, 128, 416, 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.