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Dinas Gynfor
Isle of Anglesey, Wales ยท Atlas WA1763
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1763 (1763)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Historic county
- Anglesey
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanbadrig
- National Grid reference
- SH39069507
- Latitude
- 53.42778
- Longitude
- -4.42381
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 3, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South west); Outworks (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1876); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1986); Other (1963-1969); Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- AN038
- HER
- Gwynedd 3067
- National record
- record SH 39 NE 1; monument 95547
- Wikidata
- Q31068393
Sources
References
- Lynch, F. 1991. Prehistoric Anglesey, Llangefni: Anglesey Antiquarian Society, 269-72.
- RCAHMW 1937 (reprinted 1960). Anglesey. A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, 37, 3, 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.
- Williams, W. W. 1876. Mona Antiqua, Arch Camb, 4th Series, 7 (1876), 103-8.