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Dinorben
Conwy, Wales · Atlas WA1168
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1168 (1168)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Conwy
- Historic county
- Denbighshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Abergele
- National Grid reference
- SH968757
- Latitude
- 53.26821
- Longitude
- -3.54888
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 3, SW 3, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.4 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, timber-laced wall, other burning, and palisade
- Also recorded
- guard chambers, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South east); Recesses/Guard Chambers (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual, C14, and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, human bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Other (1977); Excavation (2009); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1872-1884); Excavation (1912-1922); Excavation (1956-1978)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 102003
- National record
- record SH 97 NE; monument 406097
- Wikidata
- Q31119114
Sources
References
- Brown, I. 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales, Oxford: Windgather Press/Oxbow Books.
- 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.
- Gardner, W. and Savory, H.N. 1964. Dinorben: a hillfort occupied in the Early Iron Age and Roman times, Cardiff: National Museum of Wales.
- Guilbert, G.C. 1980. Dinorben C14 dates, Current Arch, 6, 182-88.
- Horn, J. Forthcoming. The dating of hillforts in Britain and Ireland. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
- Houlder, C. 1973. Wales: an archaeological guide, the prehistoric, Roman and early medieval field monuments,London and Boston: Faber, 64.
- Savory, H.N. 1971. Excavations at Dinorben , 1965-9, Cardiff: National Museum of Wales.
- Wood, P. 2009. St George Quarry, Dinorben, near Abergele, Conwy (SH 9695 7515), Arch in Wales, 49 (2009), 58-60.