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Castell Dinas Brân
Denbighshire, Wales · Atlas WA1159
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1159 (1159)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Historic county
- Denbighshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangollen urban
- National Grid reference
- SJ 2224 4306
- Latitude
- 52.97935
- Longitude
- -3.15877
- Altitude
- 302 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Other (1875); Other (1982); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- DE021
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 101173
- National record
- record SJ 24 SW 7; monument 93290
- Wikidata
- Q31118705
Sources
References
- Brown, I. 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales, Oxford: Windgather Press/Oxbow Books.
- Burnham, H. 1995. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Clwyd and Powys, London: HMSO, 141-42.
- Davies, Canon Ellis 1929. The prehistoric and Roman remains of Denbighshire, Cardiff: William Lewis, 252.
- Forde-Johnston, J. 1964. Fieldwork on the hillforts of North Wales, Flintshire Historical Society Publications, 21, 1-20.
- Jones, W.B. 2001. Medieval earthworks at Dinas Bran, Llangollen, Arch Camb, 147, 234-39.