View to Caernarfon Bay from inside Tre'r Ceiri hillfort showing one of the postern gates through the inner rampart. Lleyn, Gwynedd, North Wales, UK

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View north to Caernarfon Bay/Bae Caernarfon from inside Tre'r Ceiri hillfort (Town of the Giants) showing one of the postern gates through the inner rampart with remains of the wall-walk & parapet. 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. part of the fort was rebuilt in the C2ndAD during the Roman occupation of Britain.

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Size: 3652px × 4961px
Location: Tre'r Ceiri hillfort, Llanaelhaearn, Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
Photo credit: © Jean Williamson / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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