Parciau hill fort

GAT PRN: 2203 Two Kilometres inland on the NE coast of Anglesey at Parciau lies the well defended inland promontory fort of the same name, but also known as ‘Bryn Ddiol’. ‘The fort is isolated from the rest of the promontory by ramparts which consisted of three parallel walls of increasing thickness, and rock-cut ditches outside each of these.’ - GAT ‘There are a remarkable number of stone hut-circle foundations. Excavations at the site were carried out by Rev. Hugh Pritchard (1867) and E. Neil Baynes (1923) although both produced similar results. The floors of the huts were found less than 2 feet below the ground surface and consisted of a dark material containing not only animal bones, shells, charcoal and iron slag; but also fragments of late C3rd - early C4th Romano-British pottery and tile, glass beads, and 8 Roman coins dating to 280-325 AD.’ -GAT ‘The excavations by Baynes (1930a, 409) focussed on another roundhouse and a possible oblong building, and the finds recovered included a collection of animal bones (including horse), seven Roman coins (AD 280325), fifty Romano-British pottery sherds, a fragment of glass, an iron nail, a stone mortar, a ‘dressed stone and an antler tool. The finds assemblages suggest that the Iron Age hillfort was reoccupied in the later Roman period following a period of abandonment.’ -GAT (Scheduled Monument) Iron Age tribal association (conjecture based on location): Ordovices *Morphology suggests an Iron Age site. Descriptions from GAT HER. Maps from Google or Bing. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.