ARCHAEOLOGISTS are investigating their finds after an excavation on the Llyn Peninsula.

Since 2010 a team from Bangor University has been excavating the Meillionydd site, a late Bronze and Iron Age (c.800-200BC) settlement, on the western slopes of Mynydd Rhiw.

Meillionydd is a double ringwork enclosure. This is a type of hilltop enclosure that is found mostly on the Llyn Peninsula.

These settlements are found on low hilltops and consist of two circular banks of earth and stone with a handful of internal roundhouses inside. The enclosures are likely to have been the permanent homes of several family groups, and were places where larger communal gatherings took place.

The excavation team, which is directed by Prof Raimund Karl, Dr Kate Waddington, Katharina Moeller and Max Higgins, consists of students from Bangor, Vienna (Austria), and various other universities, local, British and international volunteers.

Prof Karl said: “I’ve examined parts of the interior of the enclosure and its double banks on the north-western side and produced several interesting results. Remains of several roundhouses of different sizes and methods of construction could be identified.

“The excavations in 2016 once again have produced interesting results. Remarkably, the banks on the western side of the enclosure – which would have been visible from much of Pen Llyn in the Iron Age – were much more substantial than on the less visible eastern side."

See the full story in Thursday’s Arfon/Dwyfor edition of the Cambrian News