Gaer Fawr, Llanilar

Gaer Fawr, Llanilar
Dr John Wells · CC BY 4.0

Gaer Fawr is an Iron Age bivallate hillfort near Llanilar, Ceredigion, Wales, dating to c. 800 BC - AD 74. Situated at 280 m above sea level on a rounded hilltop, its defenses feature an inner bank approximately 2.5 m high above a rock-cut ditch with traces of an outer bank on the north and east, while the south and west rely on steeply scarped natural slopes. The fort has a simple inturned entrance at its east end and is registered with Cadw (CD050) as a monument of national importance for its potential to illuminate later prehistoric defensive organization.

TypeFortress/citadel
Period1500 - 500 BC
CountryWales
Coordinates52.3301° N, 3.9800° W

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