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Craig-y-Dinas, Hirwaun
Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales ยท Atlas WA2427
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2427 (2427)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hirwaun
- National Grid reference
- SN9150008100
- Latitude
- 51.76100
- Longitude
- -3.57356
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.67 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 01107m
- National record
- record SN 90 NW
- Wikidata
- Q31119047
Sources
References
- Gerrard, C., Wiggins, H., and Evans, E. 2006. Prehistoric defended enclosures in Glamorgan with recommendations for fieldwork: Year 3 Report, GGAT Report No. 2006/089, Project No. GGAT78, Swansea: GGAT.