Location
- Atlas number
- WA1219 (1219)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Conwy
- Historic county
- Denbighshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rhos-on-Sea
- National Grid reference
- SH83207983
- Latitude
- 53.30249
- Longitude
- -3.75422
- Altitude
- 131 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Other (1992); Excavation (1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- DE071
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 35897
- National record
- record SH 87 NW; monument 93326
- Wikidata
- Q31119197
Sources
References
- Burnham, H. 1995. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Clwyd and Powys, London: HMSO, 53-4.
- Davies, Canon Ellis 1929. The prehistoric and Roman remains of Denbighshire, Cardiff: William Lewis, 194.
- Longley, D. 1997. Welsh fort identified as citadel of Dark Age king, British Archaeol, 29, Council for British Archaeology.
- Reid, I. 2009. Rhos-on-Sea Heritage Trail, BBC.