NAR SH46SW4

RHUDDGAER. The site is on a natural raised platform of rock on low-lying ground about 500-600 yards from the coast. According to a mid nineteenth-century account (Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1861, p.37) it consisted of a rectangular area enclosed by a double rampart, approximately 120 yards long by 90 yards wide over-all. Parts of the outer rampart represented by a bank are visible on the NE, SW and E sides. No traces of an inner rampart remain. A modern house and farm buildings [see nprn 265430] now occupy the greater part of the site. The recorded finds are of fourth-century date and the inscribed coffin of lead [nprn 300908] found 600 yards to the SW is of the fifth century.
Source: RCAHMW Anglesey Inventory, 1937, p.92.
B.A.Malaws, RCAHMW, 02 March 2007.

This is likely to be a later prehistoric style settlement enclosure. The finds included sherds of samian, a distimctive glossy red fabric produced into the third century AD. Twenty four coins were found, including second and fourth century issues.
There appears to have been an extensive Roman cemetery around the coffin findspot and the coffin itself may be late Roman rather than early medieval.
For full bibliography see Griffiths in the Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies XII.4 (1948), 112

John Wiles 19.07.07