View east from the summit of Yr Eifl over Tre'r Ceiri Iron Age hillfort towards the snow capped mountains of Snowdonia, Lleyn, North Wales, UK

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View east from the summit of Yr Eifl over Tre'r Ceiri hillfort (Town of the Giants) situated at the north end of the Lleyn Peninsula, with peaks of the Snowdon Range to the rear. 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 south west & north west entrances were multiphase, the main (north west) being rebuilt in the C2ndAD during the Roman occupation of Britain.

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Size: 4961px × 3753px
Location: Tre'r Ceiri hillfort, Llanaelhaearn, Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
Photo credit: © Jean Williamson / Alamy / Afripics
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