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Dinas Dinorwig
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1656
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1656 (1656)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanddeiniolen
- National Grid reference
- SH54976530
- Latitude
- 53.16500
- Longitude
- -4.17094
- Altitude
- 169 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Finds
- metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1967); Other (2007); Other (1948-1954); Other (1985-1996); Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN017
- HER
- Gwynedd 5
- National record
- record SH 11 SE; monument 95283
- Wikidata
- Q31053446
Sources
References
- Evans, R. and Smith, G. 2007. Dinas Dinorwig, Llanddeiniolen Archaeological Evaluation, G1968 Report No. 708, Bangor: Gwynedd Archaeological Trust.
- Gardner, W. 1947. Dinorwig Hill-fort, Llanddeiniolen, Caernarvonshire, Arch Camb, XCIX, 2, 231-48.
- Lynch, F. 1995. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Gwynedd, London: HMSO, 73-4.
- RCAHMW 1960. Caernarvonshire Vol II: Central, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 1170, London: HMSO
- Smith, G. H. 2005 , A Survey of Prehistoric Defended Enclosures in North West Wales 2004-2005: West Conwy, Gwynedd (Arfon) and Anglesey, Bangor: Gwynedd Archaeological Trust.
- Waddington, K. 2013. The Settlements of Northwest Wales: From the Late Bronze Age to the Early Medieval Period, Cardiff: University of Wales Press.