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Tan-y-Graig, Llanffinan
Isle of Anglesey, Wales ยท Atlas WA2566
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2566 (2566)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Historic county
- Anglesey
- Parish, community, or townland
- Pentraeth
- National Grid reference
- SH50457695
- Latitude
- 53.26839
- Longitude
- -4.24396
- Altitude
- 46 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.36 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gwynedd 1639
- National record
- record SH 57 NW 16; monument 302505
- Wikidata
- Q31067673
Sources
References
- Lynch, F. 1991. Prehistoric Anglesey, Llangefni: Anglesey Antiquarian Society.
- RCAHMW 1937 (reprinted 1960). Anglesey. A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, 79, B(3), London: HMSO.
- Smith, G.H. 2005 , A Survey of Prehistoric Defended Enclosures in North West Wales 2004-2005: West Conwy, Gwynedd (Arfon) and Anglesey, 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.