Gwynedd Archaeological Trust
Regional Historic Environment Record

Enclosure, Nr. Aber Waterfall

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 4070
Trust : Gwynedd
Community : Abergwyngregyn
Unitary authority : Gwynedd
NGR : SH66827004
Site Type (preferred type first) : UNKNOWN ENCLOSURE
Status : Snowdonia National Park

Description :
A double circle of stones lay 300 or 400yds from the Aber waterfall (Rhaeadr Fawr: SH 66827004) on comparitively low ground thickly overgrown with brambles and tall weeds. The inner circle, 18ft in diameter, apparently constructed of drystone walling, two courses of which remained in 1864, had a stone 6ft in height standing within it, but not at its centre. The circles were not concentric, the distance between the walls being 33ft on the N side but only a few feet on the S. <1>

Not located. <2>

Sources :
Geary, K. , 1998 , Aerial Mapping Project: SH67SE ( © GAT)
Waddington, K. , 2010 , Early Celtic Societies in North Wales
Waddington, K. , 2013 , The Settlements of Northwest Wales: From the Late Bronze Age to the Early Medieval Period
Blight, J. T. , 1865 , Archaeologia Cambrensis , <1>
Ordnance Survey , 1971 , SH67SE 60 , <2>
Smith, G. , 1998 , Hut Circle Settlement Survey , <3>

Events :
40782 : Hut Circle Settlement Survey (year : 1998)
44557 : Early Celtic Societies in North Wales (year : 2010)
40457 : Coedydd Aber NNR Footpath Construction (year : 1998)
40466 : Aerial Mapping Project SH67SE (year : 1998)

Related records
National Monuments Record Wales NPRN 409778 https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/409778/

Compiled date : 21-10-1987


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