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Moel Dinas, Garreg
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1730
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1730 (1730)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Merioneth
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanfrothen
- National Grid reference
- SH62574230
- Latitude
- 52.96039
- Longitude
- -4.04751
- Altitude
- 182 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.39 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (East); Oblique (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Other (1973); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gwynedd 1482
- National record
- record SH 64 SW 3; monument 302824
- Wikidata
- Q31053838
Sources
References
- Bowen E.G. and Gresham, C.A. 1967. History of Merioneth, 1, Dolgellau, 167.
- RCAHMW 1921. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VI, County of Merioneth, 121, 386, London: HMSO.
- Smith, G.H. 2006. A survey of prehistoric defended enclosures in north-west Wales 2005-2006: Gwynedd Dwyfor and Meirionnydd. Report No 634. Part I: Survey Report. 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.