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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Meillionydd double ringwork
Country: Wales County: Gwynedd Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Aberdaron  Nearest Village: Rhoshirwaun
Map Ref: SH21692924
Latitude: 52.831098N  Longitude: 4.648268W
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Meillionydd double ringwork submitted by Andy B : Meillionydd dig, 2011 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Double ringwork enclosures are largely concentrated on the Llŷn Peninsula. These hilltop monuments are defined by two circular concentric banks with internal roundhouses and date to the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age.

The sites were occupied by several family groups but are likely to have been places where larger communities gathered seasonally, when specialised activities or events were carried out, such as artefact production, ceremony and feasting.

Despite their regional significance, very little is known about the chronology of these sites or the nature of their occupation.

The preliminary excavations undertaken at Meillionydd in 2010 and 2011 (by K Waddington and R Karl, Bangor University) confirmed the presence of double concentric earth and stone banks which are accompanied by quarry hollows.

Within the enclosure there is evidence of a lengthy sequence of occupation which possibly spans most of the first millennium BC, indicated by multiple sequences of timber and stone roundhouses that were built on the same locations.

The successive overlapping roundhouses reveal that people developed strong attachments to certain places.

The complex processes which surrounded the abandonment of the final phase roundhouses suggests that closing the site was an important event, and one that was marked in specific ways by the occupants.

Official Web Site: meillionydd.bangor.ac.uk
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Meillionydd double ringwork
Meillionydd double ringwork submitted by Andy B : Meillionydd from Mynydd Rhiw Photo credit: Arwel Jones (Vote or comment on this photo)

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SH2129 : Meillionydd Mawr by Alan Fryer
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SH2129 : Stablau Meillionydd by Eric Jones
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SH2129 : Ffordd wledig/Country road near Meillionydd by Eric Jones
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SH2129 : Public footpath leading on to Mynydd Rhiw by Eric Jones
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Meillionydd Open Weekend 2017, July 15/16th by Andy B on Thursday, 13 July 2017
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Near Rhiw, Llŷn peninsula, North West Wales

For the past seven years Bangor University‘s School of History and Archaeology has been excavating the double ringwork enclosure of Meillionydd, near Rhiw, on the Llŷn peninsula in northwest Wales. In 2017 we will focus on excavating the northern half of the enclosure, where we expect to find many interesting features (e.g. roundhouses).

Our open days, which are part of the CBA's Festival of Archaeology http://www.archaeologyfestival.org.uk , will give you the chance to see for yourself how archaeological field work is done and join one of our free site tours (in Welsh or English) to find out more about the site. And while you are there why not grab a trowel and have a go in our trench yourself?

More information (e.g. directions, etc.) can be found on the Festival of Archaeology website:
http://www.archaeologyfestival.org.uk/events/2736
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This season's best find, a fragment of a jet bracelet by Andy B on Thursday, 01 August 2013
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Meillionydd excavations write:

This season's best find, found by Sam Birchall at the bottom of a posthole (most likely of the later stone phase entrance gate): a fragment of a jet bracelet.

The possible roundhouses as shown on LBI ArchPro's GPR interpretations have been numbered by Max Mattock Higgins as part of his work for his MA thesis, which is looking at the site.

More at
http://www.facebook.com/meillionydddig
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Community Festival at the Meillionydd excavations, Fri 20-Mon 23 July by Andy B on Wednesday, 18 July 2012
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Fri 20-Mon 23 July; 11.00-16.00

This year we will be continuing our excavations of the Late Bronze Age/Iron Age hilltop enclosure of Meillionydd, located near Rhiw on the western tip of the Llŷn peninsula. The site is located in a spectacular coastal landscape in northwest Wales and it forms one of ten so-called double-ringwork enclosures which are found on the peninsula.

The settlement is enclosed by two circular banks made from earth and stone and it contains lots of settlement features including the postholes and hearths belonging to timber roundhouses, as well as the upstanding walls of later stone roundhouses and stone-lined storage pits.

This year we will be focusing our excavations on the inner and outer rampart near to the entrance-way, where a number of timber and stone roundhouses are located. The dig involves students from Bangor University, Cardiff University and the University of Vienna, as well as local volunteers.

As part of the excavations we are implementing a community festival weekend (20-23 July), and we'll be putting on a whole series of activities for the local community, such as guided walks around the site and others, as well as experimental archaeology workshops at the local centre of Menter y Felin Uchaf, which is about 2km from the site.

These workshops will include witnessing a copper smelting experiment, learning about the building of timber roundhouses, and children will have the opportunity to learn about the process of excavations through a mock-sandpit excavation. An exhibition of the excavations will also be set up in the roundhouse at the centre, which will provide people with an opportunity to learn more about the site.

Location: SH21902905 - grid reference for Meillionydd excavations. Workshops held at Menter y Felin Uchaf (located 2km from the excavation site), Rhoshirwaun, , Pwllheli, Gwynedd, LL53 8HS, LL53 8HS.

Org: Bangor University, the Llyn Landscape Partnership and Menter y Felin Uchaf
Email: [email protected]

Part of the Festival of British Archaeology 2012
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Excavations at Meillionydd 2010 by Andy B on Tuesday, 06 December 2011
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Characterising the double ringwork enclosures on the Llŷn Peninsula

This excavation project is designed to explore a ‘double ringwork’ hilltop enclosure at Meillionydd, Rhiw.

The fieldwork is related to research being carried out as part of the ‘Early Celtic Societies in North Wales’ project, which is investigating the settlements and hillforts of north-west Wales from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Early Medieval period (c. 1150 BC – AD 1150).

Despite producing the most well preserved, abundant and comprehensively surveyed settlements in Wales, the archaeology of northwest Wales remains under-researched and poorly understood.

Limited modern excavations have been carried out; chronologies are not well defined; sites are unproductive in terms of dateable finds; and environmental assemblages are rare. The emergence and development of monumental foci, such as the hillforts, ringworks and hilltop enclosures, remain particularly enigmatic.

More here:
http://www.rhiw.com/hanes_02/meillionydd_2010/meillionydd_2010.htm
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The Meillionydd Excavations by Biscuit by Andy B on Tuesday, 06 December 2011
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The Meillionydd Excavations

I grabbed the pre-excavation and interim reports regarding the sites and did a bit of background reading, got online and bought myself a pair of trowels, a holster for them and a big hat and then lumped them all into a tool box. Packed up all my scruffiest clothes and hit the road off to what seemed like the middle of nowhere, the Llynn Peninsula, North Wales. I already knew this area had a fairly abundant array of archaeology as does most of North Wales but I had no idea it was as influential and it really is.

The Excavation

The site itself didn’t look like much at first glance. A small hill field used in the past for crop growth but now just for sheep grazing with nothing really distinguishing it from any other Welsh field. There are several reasons as to why this site was chosen as one of archeological important and they are as follows.

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http://ws1.silmarino.co.uk/zombiedino/?p=210
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Bringing the house down, Cardiff Museum, 11th Jan 2012 by Andy B on Tuesday, 06 December 2011
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Origins Lunchtime Talk: Bringing the house down
11 Jan, 1.05pm (Nb. Open Tuesday–Sunday and bank holiday Mondays)
National Museum Cardiff

This lecture will discuss the results from the recent excavations at the double ringwork enclosure of Meillionydd, near Rhiw, on the Llŷn Peninsula.

Double ringwork enclosures are largely concentrated on the Llŷn Peninsula. Yhese hilltop monuments are defined by two circular concentric banks with internal roundhouses and date to the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age.

The sites were occupied by several family groups but are likely to have been places where larger communities gathered seasonally, when specialised activities or events were carried out, such as artefact production, ceremony and feasting.

Despite their regional significance, very little is known about the chronology of these sites or the nature of their occupation.

The preliminary excavations undertaken at Meillionydd in 2010 and 2011 (by K Waddington and R Karl, Bangor University) confirmed the presence of double concentric earth and stone banks which are accompanied by quarry hollows.

Within the enclosure there is evidence of a lengthy sequence of occupation which possibly spans most of the first millennium BC, indicated by multiple sequences of timber and stone roundhouses that were built on the same locations.

The successive overlapping roundhouses reveal that people developed strong attachments to certain places.

The complex processes which surrounded the abandonment of the final phase roundhouses suggests that closing the site was an important event, and one that was marked in specific ways by the occupants.The significance of the processes of house creation and destruction at Meillionydd will be explored in this lecture.

With Dr Kate Waddington Lecturer in Archaeology, Bangor University.

http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/whatson/?event_id=5394
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