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Dinas Island Castle (East)
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1936
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1936 (1936)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dinas Cross
- National Grid reference
- SN01344019
- Latitude
- 52.02443
- Longitude
- -4.89706
- Altitude
- 38 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- Other (1974); LiDAR Survey (2008); Other (1994-2006); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE543(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 1587
- National record
- record SN 04 SW 3; monument 304399
- Wikidata
- Q31108135
Sources
References
- Murphy, K., Ramsey, R., Poucher, P. and Page, M. 2007. A SURVEY OF DEFENDED ENCLOSURES IN PEMBROKeSHIRE,
- 2006-07: GAZETTEER OF ORDNANCE SURVEY GRID SQUARES SN04 and SN14, Cambria Archaeology Report No. 2007/01, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.
- Page, M., Barker, L., Driver, T. and Murphy, K. 2008. Remote sensing and the Iron Age coastal promontory forts of Pembrokeshire, Arch in Wales, 48, 27-38.