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is an Iron Age hillfort, about north-east of the village of

Llandderfel Llandderfel is a village and a sparsely populated community in Gwynedd, Wales, near Bala, formerly served by the Llandderfel railway station. The community also includes the settlements of Glan-yr-afon, Llanfor, Cefnddwysarn and Frongoch. T ...

and about north-east of Bala Lake, in

Gwynedd Gwynedd (; ) is a county and preserved county (latter with differing boundaries; includes the Isle of Anglesey) in the north-west of Wales. It shares borders with Powys, Conwy County Borough, Denbighshire, Anglesey over the Menai Strait, and C ...

, Wales. It is a scheduled monument.

Description

The fort is situated on a narrow ridge, at height . It is an elongated enclosure, length about and width , orientated north-east to south-west, aligned with the ridge.Christopher Houlder. ''Wales: An Archaeological Guide''. Faber and Faber, 1978. Page 84. There is a rampart enclosing the inner area, with a steep slope to the south-east and ditches and counterscarps elsewhere. The principal entrance is in the north-east. The fort was enlarged: there is a bank, formerly the south-west end, traceable across the interior, and further defences were built to the south-west, notably a large rock-cut ditch and a rampart built with the stone from the ditch. The sites of about 25 round huts, diameter , have been detected, mostly in the later part of the enclosure. There are some burnt stones in the south-west corner, but this is not thought to be evidence of a connection with the vitrified forts of Scotland.

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{{Reflist Hillforts in Gwynedd Scheduled monuments in Wales

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