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Pen Dinas, Elerch
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2351
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2351 (2351)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ceulanymaesmawr
- National Grid reference
- SN67728767
- Latitude
- 52.47086
- Longitude
- -3.94888
- Altitude
- 260 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and timber
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Outworks (South east); Outworks (North west); Blocked (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- pottery and metalworking
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887); Other (2006); Other (2011-2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD102
- HER
- Dyfed 2012
- National record
- record SN 68 NE; monument 101990
- Wikidata
- Q31109559
Sources
References
- Davies, J. L. and Hogg, A. H. A. 1994. The Iron Age, in eds Davies, J.L. and Kirby, D.A.. Cardiganshire County History, Vol 1, From the earliest times to the coming of the Normans, Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1962. List of hill-forts in Cardiganshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 19, 363.
- Hughes, I.T. 1926. A regional survey of the prehistoric earthworks of North Cardiganshire, Trans Cardiganshire Ant Soc, 4 (1926), 22-56.
- Murphy, K, Ramsey, R. and Page, M. 2006. A survey of defended enclosures in Ceredigion 2006: Gazetteer of Ordnance Survey Grid Squares SN54 and SN55, Project Report No. 2006/20, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.