Moel Ton-Mawr Hillfort View all content for Moel Ton-Mawr

Visited 13.5.13 Directions: See details for Y Bwlwarcau. Keep walking up the hill, past Caer Blaen Y Cwm, and stay on the forestry track heading south east – keeping the forestry plantation on your right. When the plantation turns to the right, hop over barbed wire fence. Moel Ton-Mawr is directly in front of you. It is about a 40 minute walk from the car. Although my O/S map showed forest, a large swathe of the plantation had been cut down and gave the area a feeling of destruction. The Hillfort covers a couple of fields which was home to lots of sheep and lambs. This has the advantage of keeping the grass short so the double ditches surrounding the site are easy to spot. The ditches are approximately 1m deep. A fairly remote spot which requires a bit of leg work to get to. Although the ditches are well defined I doubt many would consider it worth the effort? This was the best of the four sites I visited on my walk today. COFLEIN states: 'On the gently sloping western side of the Moel Ton-Mawr summit plateau are the earthworks of diamond-shaped concentric hillfort, associated with wider-spreading field systems no doubt of Iron Age date. The complex consists of a subrectangular enclosure 75-80m east-west by 60-65m. It occupies the central southern part of a larger, more irregular enclosure that is roughly 230m east-west by 195m. This may also have been intended to appear rectilinear despite the concave north-eastern facade which rests on a stream channel. Both enclosures are defined by double banks with medial ditches. This suggests that they are broadly contemporary. Both have south-facing entrances, the outer offset by some 20m to the east. These are connected by further banks and ditches, producing a forecourt or approach way'.

Posted by CARL 14th May 2013ce

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