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Moel Hiraddug
Denbighshire, Wales · Atlas WA1154
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1154 (1154)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Historic county
- Flintshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dyserth
- National Grid reference
- SJ06327845
- Latitude
- 53.29469
- Longitude
- -3.40699
- Altitude
- 265 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 10.5 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 10.5 ha, 7.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- guard chambers, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Outworks (South east); Recesses/Guard Chambers (South east); Outworks (South); Recesses/Guard Chambers (South); Simple Gap (North west); Recesses/Guard Chambers (North west); Simple Gap (East); Recesses/Guard Chambers (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures, rectangular stone structures, and curvilinear platforms
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses and rectangular structures
- Finds
- metal, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1872); Other (1977); Other (2012); Excavation (1954-1980)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- FL012
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 102057
- National record
- record SJ 07 NE 1; monument 95092
- Wikidata
- Q31118685
Sources
References
- Brassil, K.S, Guilbert, G.C, Livens, R.G, Stead, W.H. and the late Bevan-Evans, M. 1982. Rescue excavations at Moel Hiraddug between 1960 and 1980, J Flintshire Hist Soc, 30,13-88.
- Brown, I. 2004. Discovering a Welsh landscape. Archaeology in the Clwydian Range, Bollington: Windgather Press.
- Burnham, H. 1995. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Clwyd and Powys, London: HMSO, 193.
- Davies, Canon Ellis 1949. Prehistoric and Roman remains of Flintshire, Cardiff: William Lewis.
- Gale, F. 1991. The Iron Age, in eds Manley, J., Grenter, S. and Gale, F., The archaeology of Clwyd, Mold: Clwyd Archaeology Service, Clwyd County Council.
- Hemp, W.J. 1928. A La Tene shield from Moel Hiraddug, Flintshire, Arch Camb, 83 (1928), 253-84.