Conwy Mountain Hillfort (Castell Caer Seion) Multi-Cache
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Conwy Mountain Hillfort (Castell Caer Seion)
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A two-part multi-cache, situated near the remains of an Iron Age Hill Fort, just off the North Wales Path, on the summit of Conwy Mountain. The hill fort site offers fantastic views over Conwy, the estuary, and Llandudno including the Great Orme.
You can use one of several public footpaths to get to the above co-ordinates, an information board, on the North Wales Path. These footpaths can either be accessed from the Conwy side, via ‘Mountain Road’, off ‘Cadnant Park’ [N 53 16.965 W 003 50.128], or from ‘Sychnant Pass’ (probably the best option for car parking [N 53 16.510 W 003 52.595].
At this information point, you will be able to work out where the cache by answering the following questions, about the hill fort, and substitute these answers into the final co-ordinates given below:
N53 16.9BB W003 (A+1).(305+C)
Just replace the letters with the numeric answers.
Up to how many round buildings of timber, stone and thatch where believed to be within the fort?
Answer A (Answer 'A' is a 2 digit number)
About how high were the walls?
Answer B (Answer 'B' is a single digit number)
Over how many sling stones where found by the main entrance?
Answer C (Answer 'C' is a 3 digit number)
The hill fort site is a scheduled ancient monument and visitors are asked to take care not to dislodge historic remains.
ABOUT THE HILL FORT & AREA.
Mynydd y Dref (Welsh : "Mountain of the Town") or Conwy Mountain is a hilly area to the west of the town of Conwy, in North Wales. To the north it overlooks the sea of Conwy Bay, and to the south lie the foothills of the Carneddau range of Mountains, of which it forms a part. Mynydd y Dref is the remains of an ancient volcano that erupted about 450 million years ago.
At the summit of Conwy Mountain are the Neolithic Hut Circles and the Iron Age hillfort of Castell Caer Seion (sometimes called Castell Caer Lleion). Castell Caer Seion comprised a stone walled fort, and remains show this to have been an extensive site, incorporated huts circles and levelled platform houses, and with a citadel and outposts.
Limited excavations were undertaken in 1951. No datable remains were found, only slingstones, querns and stone pestles and mortars, which suggests that, unlike many hillforts in north Wales, this site was not reoccupied in the late Roman period.
Millstone was quarried on Conwy Mountain during the Napoleonic wars.
Many thanks to the Conwy County Borough Council Countryside Warden for permission to place the cache. For further information, visit the www.conwy.gov.uk/ website.
Congratulations to ‘Justhejob + Bryn’ for been First-To-Find on 16th August 2009.
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Orgjrra gjb ebpxf - evtug unaq fvqr bs gur cngu.
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