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Aberffraw Palace, Aberffraw

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NPRN15012
Map ReferenceSH36NW
Grid ReferenceSH3489068620
Unitary (Local) AuthorityIsle of Anglesey
Old CountyAnglesey
CommunityAberffraw
Type Of SiteSETTLEMENT
PeriodMedieval
Description
This is the traditional site of Aberffraw llys or princely court. Limited excavation in 1957, centred on the given NGR, located a drain, with indications of structures. A second area explored, about 150m to the south-east (centred on SH34966848), produced no results. Further work, in 1959, showed that these features could be associated with an eighteenth century farm or farmstead. It now seems that the llys was located in the area of Aberffraw village (see Nprn401126).


Sources: RCAHM Anglesey Inventory (1937), 2
Hague in the Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club for 1957, 1-4
Medieval Archaeology 4 (1960), 141-3

John Wiles 12.07.07