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Dinas Cerdin
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2347
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2347 (2347)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Troedyraur
- National Grid reference
- SN38574697
- Latitude
- 52.09742
- Longitude
- -4.35816
- Altitude
- 193 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 2, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.56 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD016
- HER
- Dyfed 3982
- National record
- record SN 34 NE 3; monument 303769
- Wikidata
- Q31109532
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1962. List of hill-forts in Cardiganshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 19, 361.
- Hughes, I.T. 1930. Some south Cardiganshire earthworks, Trans Cardiganshire Ant Soc, 7(1930), 112-17.
- Murphy, K, Ramsey, R. and Page, M. 2006. A survey of defended enclosures in Ceredigion 2006: Gazetteer of Ordnance Survey Grid Squares SN32, SN33, SN34, Project Report No. 2006/20, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.