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Dinas Dinlle, Llandwrog
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1733
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1733 (1733)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llandwrog
- National Grid reference
- SH43705635
- Latitude
- 53.08142
- Longitude
- -4.33501
- Altitude
- 31 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- Other (1990); Other (1999); Geophysical Survey (2005); Other (2005); Other (2013); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888-1891); Other (1968-1972); Other (2004-2005); Other (2009-2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CN048
- HER
- Gwynedd 1570
- National record
- record SH 45 NW 1; monument 95309
- Wikidata
- Q31054583
Sources
References
- Brooks, I. Engineering Archaeological Services 2009. Dinas Dinlle Hillfort Footpath Watching Brief, EAS 2009/1.
- Evans, R. and Jones, M. 2010. Dinas Dinlle Hillfort, Llandwrog, GAT Report No. 847, Bangor: Gwynedd Archaeological Trust.
- Latham, J. 2010. Dinas Dinlle: erosion and conservation, The Archaeologist, IFA Magazine No. 75 Spring 2010.
- RCAHMW 1960. Caernarvonshire Vol II: Central, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 1211, London: HMSO.
- Riley, H. and Smith, G. 1993. Coastal Erosion Survey: Aberdaron Bay to the Great Orme, GAT Report No.079, Bangor: Gwynedd Archaeological Trust.
- 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.