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Caer Pencraig, Ty'n y Caeau
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA2610
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2610 (2610)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llandygai
- National Grid reference
- SH59306730
- Latitude
- 53.18429
- Longitude
- -4.10652
- Altitude
- 130 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
- 1
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hollow Way (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1866); Other (1978-1995); Earthwork Survey (1986-1987); Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN195
- HER
- Gwynedd 50
- National record
- record SH 56 NE; monument 275730
- Wikidata
- Q31054991
Sources
References
- Caffell, G. 1977. Annual Report, Cymdeithas Archaeoleg Llandegai a Llanllechid Annual Report, 21 (a), 5.
- Hughes, H. D. 1866. Hynafiaethau Llandegai a Llanllechid, 9, 17.
- Owen, E. 1872. Portions of the Parishes of Llanllechid & Llendegai, Arch Camb, VOL. 3, 4th Series, 239.
- 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.