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Braich-y-Ddinas
Conwy, Wales · Atlas WA1690
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1690 (1690)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Conwy
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Penmaenmawr
- National Grid reference
- SH70107530
- Latitude
- 53.25874
- Longitude
- -3.94883
- Altitude
- 466 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 3, SW 3, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 10.2 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- southeast
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures, curvilinear platforms, and other roundhouse evidence
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1813); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Excavation (1920-1929); Other (1948-1970)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gwynedd 712
- National record
- record SH 77 NW
- Wikidata
- Q31119131
Sources
References
- Houlder, C. 1973. Wales: an archaeological guide, London: Faber and Faber, 62.
- Hughes, H.H. 1861. Hill at Braich Y Dinas, Arch Camb, 149-50.
- Hughes, H.H. 1912. Prehistoric Remains on Penmaen Mawr (Braich Y Dinas), Arch Camb, 6th Series XII, 169-82.
- Hughes, H.H. 1913 Prehistoric Remains on Penmaen Mawr (Braich Y Dinas), ArchCamb 6th Series, XIII, 353-66.
- Hughes, H.H. 1915 Prehistoric Remains on Penmaen Mawr (Braich Y Dinas), Arch Camb, 6th Series, XV, 17-39.
- Hughes, H.H. 1922 Prehistoric Remains on Penmaen Mawr (Braich Y Dinas), Arch Camb, LXXVII, 346-59.
- Hughes, H.H. 1923 Prehistoric Remains on Penmaen Mawr (Braich y Dinas), Arch Camb, LXXVIII, 243-68.
- Hughes, H.H. 1934. Hillfort Braich Y Dinas, Archaeologia Cambrensis, P174
- RCAHMW 1956. Caernarvonshire Vol I: East, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 252, London: HMSO.
- Williams, J. LL. and Davidson, A. 2002. Arch in Wales, 42, 3-15.