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Mynydd Mynytho
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1786
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1786 (1786)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanengan
- National Grid reference
- SH30143108
- Latitude
- 52.85034
- Longitude
- -4.52399
- Altitude
- 163 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1937-1961); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gwynedd 5795
- National record
- record SH 23 SE 7; monument 302282
- Wikidata
- Q31054459
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.