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Foel Caethle, Tywyn
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1785
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1785 (1785)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Merioneth
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tywyn
- National Grid reference
- SN60659868
- Latitude
- 52.56802
- Longitude
- -4.05751
- Altitude
- 165 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.26 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall, palisade, counterscarp bank, and unfinished work
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gwynedd 5569
- National record
- record SH 69 NW; monument 303604
- Wikidata
- Q31054438
Sources
References
- 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.