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Dinas, Ty-Du
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA1772
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1772 (1772)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanberis
- National Grid reference
- SH 5666 5986
- Latitude
- 53.11659
- Longitude
- -4.14324
- Altitude
- 328 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.18 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- Other (1865); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1973); Other (2004-2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gwynedd 4034
- National record
- record SH 55 NE 3; monument 302638
- Wikidata
- Q31054206
Sources
References
- Anon 1865. Cambrian Archaeological Association Miscellaneous Notices, Arch Camb, 312.
- RCAHMW 1960. Caernarvonshire Vol II: Central, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 1136, 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.