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Parciau Hillfort is a promontory fort of Iron Age date located inland on the island of Anglesey in Wales. The site is defined by substantial defensive earthworks comprising a series of banks and ditches that cut across a naturally prominent headland, creating a fortified enclosure typical of Iron Age settlement patterns in Wales. The fort's strategic positioning and defensive architecture suggest it functioned as a place of significance for control and settlement during the pre-Roman Iron Age period. The site is protected as a scheduled ancient monument under the Cadw reference AN041.
Parciau Hillfort is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference AN041. View the official record →
Parciau Hillfort is a promontory fort of Iron Age date located inland on the island of Anglesey in Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference AN041.
Parciau Hillfort dates from the iron age period, and is classified as a promontory fort - inland. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Parciau Hillfort is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is AN041.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Parciau Dovecote (0.8 km), Pant-y-Saer Burial Chamber (2.7 km), Pant-y-Saer Hut Circles (2.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Parciau Hillfort's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Parciau Hillfort stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.