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Dinas, Porth Ruffydd
Isle of Anglesey, Wales ยท Atlas WA1694
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1694 (1694)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Historic county
- Anglesey
- Parish, community, or townland
- Trearddur
- National Grid reference
- SH22277941
- Latitude
- 53.28178
- Longitude
- -4.66743
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1937-1961); Other (1967-1970); Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- AN121
- HER
- Gwynedd 807
- National record
- record SH 27 NW 1; monument 308070
- Wikidata
- Q31067747
Sources
References
- Lynch, F. 1991. Prehistoric Anglesey, Llangefni: Anglesey Antiquarian Society, 236-37.
- RCAHMW 1937 (reprinted 1960). Anglesey. A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, 24, 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.