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Archaeological sites and monuments of interest. Snowdonia is particularly rich in its prehistoric archaeological sites, dating from the initial Neolithic colonisation of the area in the 4th millennium BC to the pre Roman era corresponding to the last half of the first millennium BC. There are equally interesting sites belonging to the period of Roman occupation in the first half of the first millennium AD, as well as to the later early Christian and Medieval periods when Wales was first identified as a geographical and cultural entity from the 5th century AD onwards. Finally, the people of Snowdonia entered into the Industrial Revolution of the late 17th to early 19th centuries AD when its natural resources were exploited, leaving behind a number of important industrial monuments as well as establishing an industrial settlement pattern of villages and towns within an area renowned for the beauty of its landscape. The
following is a brief gazetteer of the principal monuments in the
area that can be easily visited, and which are open to the general
public without recourse to private consent. They are presented
in chronological order from the earliest Neolithic period to the
latest Industrial era.
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