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Bryngaer Dinas
Conwy, Wales ยท Atlas WA1673
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1673 (1673)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Conwy
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanfairfechan
- National Grid reference
- SH70027379
- Latitude
- 53.24516
- Longitude
- -3.94942
- Altitude
- 320 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 2, SE 3, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.64 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); Out-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Interior excavation
- postholes and roundhouses
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Excavation (1925); Other (1948); Other (1988-1995); Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN 049
- HER
- Gwynedd 392
- National record
- record SH 77 SW 4; monument 95310
- Wikidata
- Q31119247
Sources
References
- Brown, I. 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales, Oxford: Windgather Press/Oxbow Books.
- Hughes, H. and Lowe, W. B. 1925. Dinas, Llanfairfechan, Arch Camb, LXXX, 342-64.
- RCAHMW 1956. Caernarvonshire Vol I: East, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 391, London: HMSO.
- Smith, G. , 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.