Home / Wales / Pembrokeshire / Dinas Fach, Solva
Dinas Fach, Solva
Pembrokeshire, Wales · Atlas WA1978
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1978 (1978)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Brawdy
- National Grid reference
- SM 8257 2293
- Latitude
- 51.86244
- Longitude
- -5.15930
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.38 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Excavation (1939); Other (1973); Other (1994-2006); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE539(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 2784
- National record
- record SM 82 SW; monument 305329
- Wikidata
- Q31108286
Sources
References
- Leask, H.G., Clark, J.G.D., Estyn Evans, E., Gordon Childe V. and Grimes W.F. (1939). Notes on excavations in Eire, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales during 1939, Proc Prehist Soc, 5(2), 258.
- 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 SM72 and SM82, Cambria Archaeology Report No. 2007/01, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.