Location
- Atlas number
- WA1157 (1157)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Denbighshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangedwyn
- National Grid reference
- SJ1721324742
- Latitude
- 52.81382
- Longitude
- -3.22978
- Altitude
- 271 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east); Other Forms (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC, 800–400 BC, and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14, Morphology/Earthwork/Typology, and Other
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metal and metalworking
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Excavation (1983)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- DE121
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 101065
- National record
- record SJ 12 SE 3; monument 306785
- Wikidata
- Q31061592
Sources
References
- CPAT 1994. Llwyn Bryn-dinas, Plate inset, Windows on the past - a review of recent discoveries by CPAT, Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust.
- Houlder C. 1978. Wales: an archaeological guide. The prehistoric, Roman and early medieval field monuments,London: Faber and Faber.
- Musson, C. 2012. Montgomeryshire hillforts and enclosures from the air, in Britnell, W.J. and Silvester, R.J. (eds) Reflections on the past. Essays in honour of Frances Lynch. Cambrian Archaeological Association, 351-368.
- Musson, C.R., Britnell, W.J., Northover, J.P. and Salter, C.J. 1992. Excavations and metal-working at Llwyn Bryn-dinas hillfort, Llangedwyn, Clwyd, Proc Prehist Soc, 58, 265-83.