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Mynydd Rhyd Ddu
Denbighshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1441
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1441 (1441)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Historic county
- Merioneth
- Parish, community, or townland
- Betws Gerfil Goch
- National Grid reference
- SJ05474775
- Latitude
- 53.01866
- Longitude
- -3.41067
- Altitude
- 389 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.33 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Other (1999)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- DE252
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 100789
- National record
- record SJ 04 NE 1; monument 306592
- Wikidata
- Q31118749
Sources
References
- Bowen, E.G. and Gresham, C.A. 1967. History of Merioneth 1, Dolgellau, 172.
- Jones, N.W. 1999. Small enclosures in North-east Wales, Project Report, CPAT Report 290, Welshpool: CPAT.
- Manley, J. 1990. A preliminary survey of some undated small settlements in North-east Wales, Arch Camb, 21-55.