Archaeological Sites in Wales
Fortress/citadel in Wales (49)
Bedd-y-Cawr Hillfort
Bedd-y-Cawr Hillfort, or Bedd y Cawr Hillfort, is an Iron Age hillfort on a natural inland promontory in the community of Cefnmeiriadog in Denbighshire in North Wales. The name of…
Burfa Castle
Burfa Castle (also known as Burfa Hillfort, Burfa Bank Hillfort, or Burfa Camp) is an Iron Age hillfort near the village of Old Radnor, Radnorshire in Powys, Wales. The site is a…
Burry Holms
Burry Holms is a tidal island at the northern end of Rhossili Bay on the Gower Peninsula, Wales, with archaeological evidence spanning from the Mesolithic to the medieval period.…
Bwrdd Arthur
Bwrdd Arthur, also known as Din Sylwy, is a 164-metre flat-topped limestone hill on the island of Anglesey, in Wales. Located on the eastern end of Red Wharf Bay, some 3…
Caerau Hillfort
Caerau Hillfort is a large triangular multivallate Iron Age hillfort, built on a previously occupied Neolithic site, occupying the western tip of an extensive ridge-top plateau in…
Caer Bach
Caer Bach is a Welsh hillfort of indeterminate age, on a rounded hillock situated near the village of Rowen in Conwy County Borough, North Wales. Its name in English translates as…
Caer Drewyn
Caer Drewyn is an early Iron Age hillfort to the north of the town of Corwen, Denbighshire. Caer Drewyn is the most southerly hillfort in the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of…
Caer Euni
Caer Euni is an Iron Age hillfort, about 2.5 miles north-east of the village of Llandderfel and about 5 miles north-east of Llyn Tegid, in Gwynedd. The fort is situated on a…
Caer Gwrtheyrn
Craig Gwrtheyrn, or Caer Gwrtheyrn, is an Iron Age hillfort on the south side of the River Teifi, about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) west of the village of Llanfihangel-ar-Arth, in…
Caer y Twr
Caer y Twr (meaning 'fort of the pile/heap') is an Iron Age hillfort atop the summit of the Holyhead Mountain in Anglesey, Wales. The hillfort is now mostly rubble, but its walls…
Castell Caer Seion
Castell Caer Seion is an Iron Age hillfort situated at the top of Conwy Mountain, in Conwy County. It is unusual for the fact that the main fort contains a smaller, more heavily…
Castell Cawr
Castell Cawr, or Tan-y-Gopa as it is known locally, is a heavily forested hill above the town of Abergele in Conwy county borough, Wales. On it is found the Iron Age hillfort of…
Castell Dinas
Castell Dinas is a hillfort and castle in southern Powys, Wales. At 450 m it has the highest castle in England and Wales. It is positioned to defend the Rhiangoll pass between…
Castell Henllys
Castell Henllys is an archaeological site near Nevern in north Pembrokeshire, Wales. The Iron Age hillfort has been the subject of an ongoing excavation since the start of the…
Castell Nadolig
Castell Nadolig ('Christmas Castle') is an Iron Age hillfort, about 2.5 miles (4 km) east of the village of Aberporth and about 1 mile (2 km) south of the village of Penbryn, in…
Cefn Carnedd
Cefn Carnedd is an Iron Age hillfort, about 1.5 miles south-west of Caersws, in Powys, Wales. It is a scheduled monument. It is on a hill overlooking the River Severn to the east,…
Clegyr Boia
Clegyr Boia, or Clegyr Fwya, is a prehistoric site on the St David's peninsula, Pembrokeshire, Wales, 33 to 65 feet above the surrounding area. The hilltop's rocky outcrop…
Craig Ty-Isaf
Craig Ty-Isaf is a small hillfort in Baglan community, Neath Port Talbot, in South Wales. It is one of three hillforts on the area of hillside known as Mynydd y Gaer, and is…
Crug Hywel
Crug Hywel is an Iron Age Celtic hillfort, with a clearly visible earth and stone ditch and rampart. The name is sometimes given to the flat-topped hill itself, which is also…
Dinas Dinlle
Dinas Dinlle is an Iron Age coastal hillfort approximately 2,500 years old, situated on a glacial drift cliff above Caernarfon Bay in Gwynedd, northwest Wales. The fort features a…
Dinas Emrys
Dinas Emrys (Welsh for 'Emrys's city') is a rocky and wooded hillock near Beddgelert in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. Rising some 76 m above the floor of the Glaslyn river valley, it…
Dinas Powys Hillfort
The Dinas Powys hillfort is an Iron Age hillfort near Dinas Powys, Glamorgan. The main fort at Dinas Powys was constructed on the northernmost point of the hill in either the…
Ffridd Faldwyn, Montgomery
A complex multivallate Iron Age hillfort in northern Powys, Wales, approximately 503 x 254 metres overall, sited on a prominent hill west of Montgomery overlooking the River…
Foel Drygarn Hillfort
Foel Drygarn ('The hill of the three cairns') is an Iron Age hillfort, within which are three Bronze Age burial cairns. The site is about 1.5 miles west of the village of Crymych…
Gaer Fawr, Llanilar
Gaer Fawr is an Iron Age bivallate hillfort near Llanilar, Ceredigion, Wales. The fort has a simple inturned entrance at its east end and is registered with Cadw (CD050) as a…
Gaer Hillfort, Trellech
Gaer Hillfort (Welsh: Bryngaer Croes Trelech) is a Celtic Iron Age defended enclosure near Trellech in Monmouthshire, Wales, dating to c. 800 BC - AD 74. Roughly circular at 105 m…
Garn Boduan
Garn Boduan is an Iron Age hillfort and hill near Nefyn, on the Llŷn Peninsula in Wales. In a survey in the 1950s the traces of over 170 round houses were identified on this site,…
Hen Gaer
Hen Gaer is an Iron Age hillfort, on a hill adjacent to and east of Bow Street, Ceredigion. Other names of the hillfort are Broncastellan and Caer Shon. Hen Gaer ("Old Castle") is…
Llansteffan Castle
Llansteffan Castle (Welsh: Castell Llansteffan) is a privately owned castle in Llansteffan, Carmarthenshire, Wales, overlooking the River Towy estuary in Carmarthen Bay. The…
Llwyn Bryn-Dinas
Llwyn Bryn-Dinas is an Iron Age hillfort on the north side of the Tanat valley, about 1 mile west of the village of Llangedwyn, in Powys. The hillfort has a single rampart, about…
Llwynda-Ddu Camp
Llwynda-Ddu Camp, also known as Llwynda-Ddu Hillfort, is a small Iron Age earthwork in Pentyrch, Cardiff in South Wales. The site is a scheduled monument, described as a…
Moel Arthur
Moel Arthur is an Iron Age hillfort in Flintshire, Wales, at the boundary with Denbighshire, about 5 miles east of Denbigh. It is on a prominent hill, height 455.8 metres, in the…
Moel Hiraddug
Moel Hiraddug (also known as Y Foel) is an Iron Age hillfort in the Clwydian Range of north-east Wales. The fort crowns a hill at 265 metres above sea level, with its ridge…
Moel y Gaer, Bodfari
The fort at Moel y Gaer is one of the smallest of the chain of defensive works found along the Clwydians. It probably dates from the Iron Age, although there is no definitive…
Moel y Gaer, Llanbedr
Moel y Gaer, also known as Moel-y-Gaer Camp or Moel y Gaer Hillfort, is an Iron Age hillfort located on a western spur of the Clwydian Range, near the village of Llanbedr,…
Moel y Gaer, Llantysilio
Moel y Gaer is an Iron Age hillfort on a summit of Llantysilio Mountain, northwest of the town of Llangollen, Denbighshire. The defensive works at Moel y Gaer comprise a roughly…
Moel y Gaer, Rhosesmor
Moel y Gaer is an Iron Age hillfort located on a summit at the southern end of Halkyn Mountain, overlooking the village of Rhosesmor, Flintshire. It is a well-preserved hillfort…
Parciau Hill Fort
Parciau hill fort is a hill fort on the Welsh island of Anglesey. It stands on the summit of Bryn Ddiôl, whose name means "trackless hill". Bryn Ddiôl is a plateau some 95 metres…
Pentre Camp
Pentre Camp is an Iron Age hillfort, near the hamlet of Llangynyw and about 2.5 miles north-east of Llanfair Caereinion, in Powys, Wales. The fort is an oval, about 74 metres by…
Penycloddiau
Penycloddiau is the largest hillfort in Wales, enclosing 19 hectares at 440m elevation in the Clwydian Range, Flintshire. University of Liverpool excavations (2012-2018)…
Pen y Gaer
Pen y Gaer is the location of a Bronze Age and Iron Age hillfort near the village of Llanbedr-y-Cennin in the Conwy valley. A natural defensive site, it had a long history of…
Roundton Hill
Roundton Hill is a steep-sided volcanic hill rising to 370 metres in eastern Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales, near the English border at Church Stoke. Now managed as a nature…
Slwch Tump
Slwch Tump, also known as Slwch Camp and formerly known as Pen Cevn-y-Gaer, is an Iron Age hillfort close to Brecon in Powys. The enclosure is located on a hill composed of…
The Bulwarks, Porthkerry
The Bulwarks, Porthkerry is a promontory fort in Rhoose, Vale of Glamorgan, on the southern coast of Wales overlooking the Bristol Channel. It probably dates to the Iron Age and…
The Knave
An Iron Age promontory hillfort perched on 60-metre cliffs on the Gower coast near Rhossili, Swansea, Wales. Ceramic evidence dates occupation to circa 50 BC - 50 AD, with pottery…
The Larches, Monmouthshire
The Larches is a Celtic Iron Age hillfort in Monmouthshire, Wales.
Trawscoed Fort
Trawscoed fort is an auxiliary fort of Roman Britain in Ceredigion, Wales. At its height it could have had a total population of around 2,000 people living at the fort and its…
Tre'r Ceiri
Tre'r Ceiri is an Iron Age hillfort on the slopes of Yr Eifl in north-western Wales. Its name means 'town of the giants', from the Welsh cewri, plural of cawr, 'giant'. The…
Twmbarlwm
Twmbarlwm, also known as Twm Barlwm, Twyn Barlwm or locally known as "the Twmp", the Nipple or the Pimple because of the mound that lies at its summit, is a hill situated 2 km to…
Fort in Wales (16)
Allt yr Esgair
Allt yr Esgair is a hill in the Brecon Beacons National Park in Powys. It is commonly referred to locally as simply 'The Allt'. The Welsh name signifies 'wooded slope of the…
Beacon Ring
Long Mountain is a hill straddling the boundary between Powys and Shropshire to the east of Welshpool though the summit at 408 metres at Beacon Ring is within Wales. Beacon Ring…
Breidden Hill
Breidden Hill is a steep-sided prominence reaching 367 m near Welshpool in Powys, Wales. Its summit holds a large Iron Age hillfort occupied through the Bronze and Iron Ages into…
Buarth-y-Gaer
Buarth-y-Gaer is an Iron Age hillfort or enclosure on the summit of Mynydd-y-Gaer, 300 m above sea level. It is in Briton Ferry community, near Neath, in Neath Port Talbot, South…
Craig Rhiwarth
Craig Rhiwarth is a mountain in the Berwyn range, in Powys (formerly Montgomeryshire), Wales. On the summit is an Iron Age hillfort. The altitude of Craig Rhiwarth is 532 metres;…
Foel Fenlli
Foel Fenlli or Moel Fenlli is a hill in Denbighshire, North Wales. With a summit at an elevation of 511 metres, it is the second highest peak of the Clwydian Range. The remains of…
Gaer, Black Mountains
Gaer is the name of a hill in the Black Mountains of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Monmouthshire. It lies at the southern end of the long ridge between the valley of the…
Greenala Point Fort
An Iron Age multivallate promontory fort on a headland on the south coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales, occupying 1.8 hectares of the former Stackpole Estate. The fort is naturally…
Llanfihangel Din Sylwy
A hillfort known as Din Sylwy or Bwrdd Arthur ('Arthur's Table') in north-east Anglesey, Wales. Defensive walls nearly 2.5 metres wide built from parallel limestone slabs. The…
Moel y Gest
Moel y Gest is a 263 m hill to the west of Porthmadog in North Wales. At the summit of Moel y Gest is a hillfort which shows some resemblance to the "nuclear forts" of the Early…
Mynydd Carningli
Mynydd Carningli is a mountain in the Preseli Hills near the town of Newport, Pembrokeshire, Wales. It has both prehistoric and historic remains. Carningli is 347 metres high.…
Mynydd Illtud
Mynydd Illtud is an extensive area of common land near Libanus, Powys, Wales, located in the Brecon Beacons National Park and some three miles south-west of Brecon. The common is…
Mynydd Maendy
Mynydd Maendy is a hilltop and moorland, near Gilfach Goch, in the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf in south Wales, to the southwest of Tonyrefail. As with the Maindee district…
Pen Dinas
Pen Dinas is a large hill in Penparcau, on the coast of Ceredigion, Wales, upon which an extensive Iron Age, Celtic hillfort is situated. The hillfort actually consists of two…
Pen-y-crug
Pen-y-crug is a hill in the Brecon Beacons National Park in the county of Powys. It is commonly referred to locally as simply 'The Crug'. The Welsh name signifies 'top of the…
Y Garn Goch
Y Garn Goch is a hill in the Brecon Beacons National Park in the east of Carmarthenshire, Wales. The name means the 'red cairn'. It lies near the village of Bethlehem, three miles…
Dolmen in Wales (15)
Bodowyr Burial Chamber
Bodowyr Burial Chamber is a Neolithic burial chamber made of a few large stacked stones in a farmer's field on the north Wales island of Anglesey. It is located at Bodowyr Farm,…
Carreg Coetan Arthur
Carreg Coetan Arthur is a Neolithic dolmen in Newport, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Carreg Coetan Arthur dates from around 3000 BC and is the remains of a Neolithic burial chamber (also…
Carreg Samson
Carreg Samson is a 5000-year-old Neolithic dolmen located half a mile west of Abercastle near the Pembrokeshire Coast Path in Wales. Carreg Samson has a capstone, 4.7 metres by…
Coetan Arthur Dolmen
Coetan Arthur dolmen, also known as Arthur's Quoit is the remains of a Neolithic burial chamber. It dates from around 3000 BC. The site, situated on the hillside close to St…
Henblas Burial Chamber
Henblas Burial Chamber is a Neolithic dolmen located in Henblas, to the southwest of Llangristiolus, Anglesey. The structure consists of a pair of large quartz-rich boulders,…
King's Quoit
King's Quoit is a Neolithic burial chamber located in Manorbier, 5 miles east of Pembroke, Pembrokeshire. It is a scheduled monument. The cromlech known as the King's Quoit is…
Lligwy Burial Chamber
Lligwy Burial Chamber is a Neolithic burial chamber in Lligwy, near the east coast of Anglesey, Wales. It consists of a circle of upright stones, made into a low chamber by a very…
Pant-y-Saer Burial Chamber
Pant-y-Saer is a Neolithic dolmen near the small town of Benllech in Anglesey, Wales. This burial chamber is partially collapsed with the massive capstone resting on the ground at…
Pentre Ifan
Pentre Ifan is an ancient dolmen in the community and parish of Nevern, Pembrokeshire. The Pentre Ifan monument is a scheduled monument and one of three Welsh monuments to receive…
Perthi-Duon Burial Chamber
Perthi-Duon is a Neolithic portal dolmen located west of Brynsiencyn on Anglesey, Wales, dating to around 3500 BC. The collapsed burial chamber consists of a 2.5m by 1.8m capstone…
Presaddfed Burial Chamber
Presaddfed Burial Chamber is a scheduled ancient monument a short distance northwest of Bodedern in Anglesey, north Wales, comprising two Neolithic chamber tombs. The southern…
St Lythans Burial Chamber
The St Lythans burial chamber is a dolmen constructed around 4000 BC during the mid Neolithic period, representing a surviving example of a chambered long barrow in the Welsh…
Tinkinswood
Tinkinswood or its full name Tinkinswood Burial Chamber, also known as Castell Carreg, Llech-y-Filiast and Maes-y-Filiast, is a megalithic burial chamber, built around 4000 BC,…
Ty Mawr Burial Chamber
Ty Mawr Burial Chamber is a Neolithic dolmen located northeast of the town Llanfairpwllgwyngyll in Anglesey. The burial chamber is a collapsed megalithic dolmen with a fallen…
Tŷ Newydd Burial Chamber
Tŷ Newydd Burial Chamber is a Neolithic dolmen located northeast of the village of Llanfaelog on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. Tŷ Newydd burial chamber is a ruined megalithic…
Cairn in Wales (12)
Bedd Taliesin
Bedd Taliesin is the legendary grave of the poet Taliesin, located in Ceredigion. The Bronze Age round cairn is a listed Historic Monument. It is a round-kerb cairn with a cist…
Bryn Cader Faner
The Bryn Cader Faner is a Bronze Age round cairn which lies to the east of the small hamlet of Talsarnau in the Ardudwy area of Gwynedd in Wales. The diameter is 8.7 metres and…
Carnedd y Ddelw Cairn
Carnedd y Ddelw is a Bronze Age burial cairn in the Carneddau mountains of north Wales, occupying a summit northeast of Foel-fras. The summit features two large shelter cairns…
Carnedd y Saeson and Neighbouring Cairns North-West of Foel Dduarth
Carnedd y Saeson and neighbouring cairns are a group of seven prehistoric burial cairns northwest of Foel Dduarth near Llanfairfechan, Conwy. The main cairn is a low circular…
Cefn Bryn
Cefn Bryn is an ancient ridge in Britain. It is a 5-mile-long Old Red Sandstone ridge in south Wales, in the heart of the Gower Peninsula. Just north of the ridge summit of Cefn…
Cras - Ring Cairn to North of
Cras ring cairn is a prehistoric funerary monument located in Wales.
Cras Round Cairn
Bronze Age round cairn situated on the Cras ridge outcrop in open moorland above Aber, Gwynedd, within the Carneddau range of northern Snowdonia. The stone-built cairn is circular…
Cras - Round Cairn to North of
Cras is a prehistoric round cairn located in Wales, dating to the Neolithic period (before 4500 BC). It represents a rare example of early funerary architecture in the region,…
Foel Chwern
Foel Chwern is a Round cairn on the edge of the high plateau east of the Neath valley, and near the summit of Craig y Llyn. The headwaters of the River Rhondda are to the…
Foel Dduarth - Cairn to North-East of
A prehistoric cairn located on the slopes of Foel Dduarth in Gwynedd, North Wales. The surrounding area contains hut circles, ancient fields, and additional scheduled monuments.
Parc Cwm Long Cairn
Parc Cwm long cairn, also known as Parc le Breos burial chamber, is a partly restored Neolithic chambered tomb on the Gower Peninsula, Wales. Identified in 1937 as a…
The Gop
The Gop (Welsh: Coparleni, also known as Gop Cairn or Gop-y-Goleuni) is a Neolithic monument lying within the Clwydian Range, northwest of Trelawnyd, in Flintshire, Wales. Sitting…
City/town/settlement in Wales (6)
Bryn Eryr
Bryn Eryr is an Iron Age farmstead near Llansadwrn on Anglesey. Excavations by the Gwynedd Archaeological Trust between 1985 and 1987 uncovered three roundhouses within a…
Caer Lêb
Caer Lêb is a Roman and mediaeval site on the Welsh island of Anglesey, west of Brynsiencyn. Its name means "Leaven Castle". It is a low-lying site near the Afon Braint with a…
Enclosed Hut Circle Settlement - South-East of Bod Silin
An enclosed prehistoric hut circle settlement located 750 metres southeast of Bod Silin near Llanfairfechan, Conwy, Wales. The enclosure contains remains of two round houses…
Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles
Ty Mawr Hut Circles on Holyhead Mountain, Anglesey, are the remains of a prehistoric farming settlement with over 50 original circular stone dwellings, of which about 20 survive.…
Llanfechell
Llanfechell is a village in Anglesey, Wales, and the largest of several small villages in the Mechell Community Council area. It lies 18 km east of Holyhead and 9 km west of…
Tregele
Tregele is a small village in northern Anglesey, Wales, near which stands the Llanfechell Cromlech. Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age rock art was discovered on one of the…
Stone circle in Wales (5)
Bryn Gwyn Stones
The Bryn Gwyn Stones or Bryn Gwyn Standing Stones are neolithic stones in Brynsiencyn on Anglesey. The Bryn Gwyn stones stand about 280 metres to the south-west of Castell Bryn…
Gray Hill, Monmouthshire
A Bronze Age ceremonial landscape on Mynydd Llwyd hill in Monmouthshire, South Wales, rising to 273 metres above sea level with views over the Severn Estuary. The stone circle…
Moel Tŷ Uchaf
Moel Ty Uchaf is a Bronze Age ring cairn (often called a stone circle) near Llandrillo, Denbighshire, North Wales, sited at 440 metres elevation on the western edge of the Berwyn…
Waun Mawn
Waun Mawn is a megalithic site in the Preseli Mountains of Pembrokeshire, Wales. Following excavations in 2018, it became the site of a supposed dismantled Neolithic stone circle.…
Whetstones Stone Circle
The Whetstones are, or were, a stone circle beneath Corndon Hill in the parish of Church Stoke, Montgomeryshire, Wales, near the border with Shropshire. They lie immediately to…
Megalithic stones in Wales (3)
Gilwern Hill, Powys
The site is composed of Ordovician volcaniclastic rocks forming part of the Builth Inlier, also notable for trilobite fossils.
Maen Llia
Maen Llia is a standing stone which sits on moorland at grid reference SN924192 in the Brecon Beacons National Park in Powys. The stone which is a large piece of intraformational…
Penrhos Feilw Standing Stones
The Penrhos Feilw Standing Stones are a pair of standing stones on Holy Island west of Anglesey in north-west Wales. They are thought to date from the Bronze Age but their origins…
Henge in Wales (2)
Bedd Arthur
Bedd Arthur consists of a barely visible oval bank and ditch, with thirteen standing stones, none higher than 60 centimetres arranged inside along with two further fallen stones.…
Castell Bryn Gwyn
Castell Bryn Gwyn, officially spelled Castell Bryngwyn, is a prehistoric site on the Isle of Anglesey, west of Brynsiencyn. It is a circular clay and gravel bank covered with…
Tomb in Wales (2)
Barclodiad y Gawres
Barclodiad y Gawres is a Neolithic burial chamber between Rhosneigr and Aberffraw on the south-western coast of the island of Anglesey in North Wales. It is an example of a…
Bryn Celli Ddu
Bryn Celli Ddu is a prehistoric site on the Welsh island of Anglesey located near Llanddaniel Fab. Its name means 'the mound in the dark grove'. It was archaeologically excavated…
Earthwork in Wales (1)
Geological interest in Wales (1)
Mine/quarry in Wales (1)
Other sites in Wales (5)
Din Lligwy Hut Circle
Din Lligwy is a well-preserved Romano-British settlement near Moelfre on Anglesey, north Wales. Animal bones fashioned into tools and a musical instrument were also recovered.
Foel Dduarth Enclosure
A prehistoric earthwork enclosure on the slopes of Foel Dduarth, North Wales. The site is a scheduled ancient monument situated within a rich prehistoric landscape containing hut…
Harold's Stones, Trellech
Three Bronze Age standing stones on a northeast-southwest axis in the village of Trellech, Monmouthshire, south-east Wales. Local legend attributes them to King Harold's 1063…
Llyn Cerrig Bach
Llyn Cerrig Bach is a small lake located between Rhosneigr and Valley in the west of Anglesey. Whilst it is not one of the largest lakes on the island (around 1.8 acres), its…
Llyn Fawr
Llyn Fawr ('large lake' in Welsh) is a reservoir that occupies one of a series glacial cirques that form the northern escarpment of the South Wales Coalfield uplands, overlooking…
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