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Craig Adwy Wynt
Denbighshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1184
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1184 (1184)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Historic county
- Denbighshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Efenechtyd
- National Grid reference
- SJ122544
- Latitude
- 53.07957
- Longitude
- -3.31218
- Altitude
- 170 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1977); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1874-1875)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 100923
- National record
- record SJ 15 SW; monument 306854
- Wikidata
- Q31118652
Sources
References
- Brown, I. 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales, Oxford: Windgather Press/Oxbow Books.
- Forde Johnston, J. 1976. Hillforts of the Iron Age in England and Wales, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.