Prof Howard M R Williams visits:
Archwilo defines Moel-y-Gaer as ‘mutlivallate’, but I noticed one principal bank and ditch with counterscarp bank. as per the Coflein description above. The in-turned entrance described is indeed present.
There was also a presumed Bronze Age mound within the hillfort on the northern side, 15-17m in diameter and 1.3m high. A timber post possible funerary monument was also found during excavations by Alex Gibson (CPAT 70263). However, as Archwilio records, the visible mound might equally be a Roman signal station or a later watchtower/beacon.
Another feature found during the 1972 excavations was a Napoleonic beacon on the top of the hill: indeed given its strategic location the idea that this might have been a beacon site for earlier periods, including the Mercian frontiers of Wat’s Dyke and Offa’s Dyke, must be seriously entertained. Both the actual course of Wat’s Dyke to the NE, and the speculated northern continuation of Offa’s Dyke (as ventured recently by Professor Keith Ray) could have readily utilised this spot to communicate over long distances as well as along the dykes themselves. Therefore, while characterised as an ‘Iron Age’ monument, Moel-y-Gaer might have potentially had a far more complex intermittent history of use and reuse, including potential Roman, early medieval and modern phases of activity.
In summary, Moel-y-Gaer is yet another Welsh monument coded ‘Iron Age’ but clearly with a more complex multi-phased story to tell in relation to its wider landscape.
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2021/06/29/moel-y-gaer-halkyn/
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