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Bryn-y-Gaer, Enclosure

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NPRN155646
Map ReferenceSJ35SW
Grid ReferenceSJ3058053270
Unitary (Local) AuthorityWrexham
Old CountyDenbighshire
CommunityBroughton
Type Of SiteDEFENDED ENCLOSURE
PeriodIron Age
Description
1. The hillfort encloses a sub-triangular hill-top and is now heavily built upon. E side largely destroyed by quarrying. Intermittently preserved single rampart has no visible outer ditch. Inturned entrance.
DJP 1990
2. The enclosure, as described above, is c.366m NNW-SSE by 188m, resting originally on steep slopes to N & E.
An oportune section indicated possible dry-stone revetting fronting the rampart.
(source Os495card; SJ35SW8)
J.Wiles 27.11.02