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Pen Dinas, Aberystwyth
Ceredigion, Wales · Atlas WA2360
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2360 (2360)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Aberystwyth
- National Grid reference
- SN58418036
- Latitude
- 52.40285
- Longitude
- -4.08274
- Altitude
- 114 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 4.4 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1.72 ha, 2.28 ha, 4.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and timber-framed wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South); Other Forms (South); Other Forms (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (2006); Excavation (1933-1937)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dyfed 3993
- National record
- record SN 58 SE; monument 92236
- Wikidata
- Q31109292
Sources
References
- Avery, M, 1993, `Pen Dinas' in Hillfort Defences of Southern Britain, BAR British Series 231, Volume II, Appendix A, The Evidence of Individual Sites, 255-263. (part of: Avery, M. 1993. Hillfort Defences of Southern Britain, BAR British Series 231, (three volumes)).
- Browne, D. and Driver, T., 2001. Bryngaer Pen Dinas Hill-fort, A Prehistoric Fortress at Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth: RCAHMW.
- Driver, T., 2005. The Hillforts of North Ceredigion: Architecture, Landscape Setting and Cultural Contexts, Unpublished PhD thesis, The University of Wales, Lampeter, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology.
- Driver, T. 2013. Architecture, Regional Identity and Power in the Iron Age Landscapes of Mid Wales: The Hillforts of North Ceredigion, BAR British Series 583, Oxford: Archaeopress.
- Forde, D. 1937. Note - Excavations at Pen Dinas, Cardiganshire, 1937, Ant J, Vol. XVIII, No.1.
- Forde, D., Griffiths, W.E, Hogg, A.H.A. and Houlder, C. 1963. Excavations at Pen Dinas, Aberystwyth, Arch Camb, 112, 125-53.
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1962. List of hill-forts in Cardiganshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 19, 358.
- Murphy, K, Ramsey, R. and Page, M. 2006. A survey of defended enclosures in Ceredigion 2006: Gazetteer of Ordnance Survey Grid Squares SN58, Project Report No. 2006/20, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.
- Rees, S. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Dyfed, London: HMSO, 88-9.