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Dinas Allt Wen, Dwygyfylchi
Conwy, Wales ยท Atlas WA1691
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1691 (1691)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Conwy
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Penmaenmawr
- National Grid reference
- SH74557733
- Latitude
- 53.27805
- Longitude
- -3.88296
- Altitude
- 253 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.96 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- guard chambers and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Passage-way/Corridor (North east); Recesses/Guard Chambers (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1952); Other (1992); Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gwynedd 713
- National record
- record SH 77 NW; monument 300953
- Wikidata
- Q31119140
Sources
References
- RCAHMW 1956. Caernarvonshire Vol I: East, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 453, 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.