Prehistoric sites in North Wales

This massive Iron Age hillfort is set on the slope of a hill overlooking the attractive town of Corwen and the meandering River Dee. Unlike most hillforts, Caer Drewyn has walls of stone, rather than the more typical earthen banks and ditches. The fort is composed of a huge rampart with entrances on the north-east and south.
Corwen, Clwyd, Wales

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Heritage Highlight: Hill fort unusually built with stone walls

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If Gop Hill Cairn (sometimes simply called The Gop) were located in a more populated area it would be celebrated and the subject of endless speculation like more famous sites such as Stonehenge and Silbury Hill. But it is not, and for that, we should, perhaps, be grateful. Gop Hill is a strange manmade mound, or cairn, built sometime during the Neolithic period, on a high hill overlooking Trelawnyd, Flintshire.
Trelawnyd, Clwyd, Wales

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Heritage Highlight: The second largest mound in Britain

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Moel Arthur hillfort is one of several similar forts built on summits of the Clwydian Range. It was built about 500 BCE and is composed of earthen banks and ditches enclosing the summit of a small hill. A Bronze Age burial mound stands near the summit, and there is evidence of ancient quarrying.
Nannerch, Clwyd, Wales

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A cairn circle measuring 39 feet across, composed of 41 standing stones. None of the stones is very tall, though the location provides wonderful views over the valley below. A cist has been found in the centre of the circle. Nearby is the Ring of Tyfos stone circle.
Llandrillo, Clwyd, Wales

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Penbedw is a small stone circle set within the confines of a Grade II listed 18th century park surrounding Penbedw Hall. The circle may be Bronze Age, but may also have been erected as a folly during picturesque landscaping of Penbedw Hall parkland in the 18th and 19th century.
Penbedw Hall, Nannerch, Clwyd, Wales

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The hillfort of Penycloddiau was built around 500 BCE, encircling the summit of one of the most prominent peaks in the Clwydian Range. Near the summit is a Bronze Age burial mound, built around 2000 BCE. The hillfort is the largest of several forts built along the highest peaks in the Range, and one of the largest in all of Wales.
Nannerch, Clwyd, Wales

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Heritage Highlight: One of the largest hill forts in Wales

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