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Pen-y-Dinas, Llandudno
Conwy, Wales · Atlas WA1686
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1686 (1686)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Conwy
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llandudno
- National Grid reference
- SH77908295
- Latitude
- 53.32933
- Longitude
- -3.83491
- Altitude
- 121 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, animal bones, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Other (1912); Other (1948); Excavation (1960); Other (1969); Other (1992); Other (1969-1995); Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN039
- HER
- Gwynedd 637
- National record
- record SH 78 SE 10; monument 303125
- Wikidata
- Q31119205
Sources
References
- Muckle, P. 1993 Pen y Dinas Archaeological Survey, GAT Report No. 052, Bangor: Gwynedd Archaeological Trust.
- RCAHMW 1956. Caernarvonshire Vol I: East, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 367, 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.
- Smith, G. 2011. Re-assessment of two hillforts in North Wales: Pen-y-Dinas, Llandudno, and Caer Seion, Conwy, Arch Wales, 51, 61-78.
- Waddington, K. 2013. The Settlements of Northwest Wales: From the Late Bronze Age to the Early Medieval Period, Cardiff: University of Wales Press.