Carnalw cultural landscape

This map, compiled by Dyfed Archaeology and published in 2010, shows the results of the detailed survey of Carnalw and the surrounding area.  The rock outcrops are in black and the prehistoric features (and some that might be medieval) in grey.  This is a truly extraordinary assemblage of features, including stone walls, huts, circular and rectangular enclosures or fields, stone clearance cairns and trackways.   The bulk of the features are assumed to be date from the  Late Bronze Age / Early Iron Age -- ie approx the same age as the features on top of nearby Foel Drygarn.



The prominent tor of Carnalw, showing the triangular defended platform on the western flank of the ridge, the "chevaux de frise" defensive system to the SW of it, and the angled entrance corridor.  on he eastern flank of the tor there are a large number of apparently ice-moulded features.