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Dinas Melin-y-Wig
Denbighshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1177
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1177 (1177)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Historic county
- Merioneth
- Parish, community, or townland
- Betws Gwerfil Goch
- National Grid reference
- SJ049491
- Latitude
- 53.03069
- Longitude
- -3.41956
- Altitude
- 277 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 2, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 4.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1874-1875)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- ME014
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 100779
- National record
- record SJ 04 NW; monument 306593
- Wikidata
- Q31118715
Sources
References
- Bowen E.G. and Gresham, C.A. 1967. History of Merioneth ,1, Dolgellau, 135-7.
- Houlder, C. 1978. Wales: An archaeological guide. The prehistoric, Roman and early medieval field monuments, London Faber and Faber, 70.