Chris Morriss
Outer defensive wall
Thursday, 20th June.
Climbed up from the car park on the Llyn coast path, to the south-easterly hill of the triple peaks of Yr Eifl.
At the top is the remarkable Iron-age fortified village of Tre'r Ceiri.
It is Britain's best preserved hilltop iron-age village and is well worth the climb. The surrounding walls and internal hut walls are in remarkable condition, considering roughly 2,500 years of battering by the winds from the Irish sea.
There has been some repair work done to the stonework of the main entrance and to a few of the huts, but otherwise the site has been little touched.
No shortage of granite stones for the walls, or heather to thatch the huts, but the roof poles would have to have been carried some distance, even though the climate was warmer then than now. There are a few springs lower down the hill, but water must also have been a problem.
Outer defensive wall
Thursday, 20th June.
Climbed up from the car park on the Llyn coast path, to the south-easterly hill of the triple peaks of Yr Eifl.
At the top is the remarkable Iron-age fortified village of Tre'r Ceiri.
It is Britain's best preserved hilltop iron-age village and is well worth the climb. The surrounding walls and internal hut walls are in remarkable condition, considering roughly 2,500 years of battering by the winds from the Irish sea.
There has been some repair work done to the stonework of the main entrance and to a few of the huts, but otherwise the site has been little touched.
No shortage of granite stones for the walls, or heather to thatch the huts, but the roof poles would have to have been carried some distance, even though the climate was warmer then than now. There are a few springs lower down the hill, but water must also have been a problem.