Historical background
Largely unenclosed mountain land reaching up to the Nantlle
ridge. Walter Davies, ‘Gwallter Mechain', refers to a plantation
of 2,000 oaks ‘in a very high situation' on Talmignedd farm
in 1810.
Key historic landscape characteristics
Relict archaeology (settlement and cultivation)
This area comprises unenclosed mountain, beyond the margin
of modern cultivation, although in some ways it is a continuation
of area 37, particularly in the presence of extensive and well-preserved
remains of medieval settlement and field systems (long huts
and ridge and furrow cultivation). In addition, a number of
nineteenth- and twentieth-century features survive, including
mineral trials and grenade-throwing practice areas from WWII.
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