Parapet & wall-walk on NW drystone ramparts of Tre'r Ceiri hillfort (Town of the Giants), Gwynedd, an Iron Age & Roman-period fortress.

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Parapet & wall-walk on the NW drystone ramparts of Tre'r Ceiri hillfort (Town of the Giants}, an Iron Age & Roman-period fortress on the Lleyn Peninsula overlooking Caernarfon Bay. Begun in the late 1st millennium BC, drystone ramparts enclose some 5 acres (2ha) & around 150 huts which were still in use in the C4thAD. The SW & NW entrances were multiphase, the main (NW) being rebuilt in the C2ndAD during the Roman occupation of Britain.

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Size: 4200px × 5581px
Location: Tre'r Ceiri Hillfort, Llanaelhaearn, Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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