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Deserted Rural Settlement, Great Orme's Head

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NPRN91419
Map ReferenceSH78SE
Grid ReferenceSH7677083440
Unitary (Local) AuthorityConwy
Old CountyCaernarfonshire
CommunityLlandudno
Type Of SiteBUILDING PLATFORM
PeriodMedieval
Description
Series of building platforms, rectangular building footings (now turf-covered) and enclosure banks marking the site of a complex and long-lived deserted settlement, probably of medieval date. The settlement remains were constructed in the lee of a rocky cliff and steep bank, on the more sheltered north-facing slopes of the Great Orme. They look out across a well-preserved set of medieval strip-fields with cultivation ridges surviving (NPRN 409472). Recorded during RCAHMW aerial reconnaissance.

T. Driver, RCAHMW, 2012.