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Craig-y-Dinas, Pontllyfni
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1727
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1727 (1727)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanllyfni
- National Grid reference
- SH44805200
- Latitude
- 53.04267
- Longitude
- -4.31650
- Altitude
- 63 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.79 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Passage-way/Corridor (North east); Simple Gap (West); Passage-way/Corridor (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Excavation (1887); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Excavation (1939); Other (1955); Other (1972); Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN057
- HER
- Gwynedd 1312
- National record
- record SH 45 SW 6; monument 93534
- Wikidata
- Q31054318
Sources
References
- Barnwell, E. L. 1887. Craig-y-dinas, Arch Camb, 4th Series, 9, 217-221.
- RCAHMW 1960. Caernarvonshire Vol II: Central, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 1281, 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.