Gwynedd is a large rural county in North Wales. It includes the high mountains of Snowdonia National Park and the mixed farmland and hills of the Llŷn peninsula, which between them make up the historic county of Caernarvonshire. The southern part of Gwynedd is the softer coastal and upland landscapes of the historic county of Merionethshire. Gwynedd, the second-largest county in Wales, has a total of 497 scheduled monuments. That is too many to have on a single list article, so for convenience the list is divided into three. The 194 prehistoric sites in historic Caernarvonshire (shown below), the 171 prehistoric sites in historic Merionethshire, and the 132 Roman to modern sites across the whole of Gwynedd. One of the oldest sites is a stone axe factory. Over the whole of Gwynedd, there ar