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Trwyn Porth Dinllaen
Gwynedd, Wales ยท Atlas WA2598
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2598 (2598)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Nefyn
- National Grid reference
- SH27504160
- Latitude
- 52.94397
- Longitude
- -4.56874
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- Other (1993); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1971-1975); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gwynedd 421
- National record
- record SH 24 SE 1; monument 302273
- Wikidata
- Q31054520
Sources
References
- Berks, T., Davidson, A. and Evans, R. 2010. Arfordir/Coastal Heritage: Gwynedd, GAT Report No. 861, Bangor: Gwynedd Archaeological Trust.
- Evans, R. 2010. Porthdinllaen Lifeboat Station, Nefyn, GAT Report No. 843, Bangor: Gwynedd Archaeological Trust.
- RCAHMW 1964. Caernarvonshire Vol III: West, A survey and inventory by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, No 1567, London: HMSO.
- Riley, H. and Smith, G. 1993. Coastal Erosion Survey: Aberdaron Bay to the Great Orme, GAT Report No. 079, Bangor: Gwynedd Archaeological Trust.
- Smith, G.H. 2006. A survey of prehistoric defended enclosures in north-west Wales 2005-2006: Gwynedd Dwyfor and Meirionnydd. Report No 634. Part I: Survey Report. Bangor: Gwynedd Archaeological Trust.
- Waddington, K. 2013. The Settlements of Northwest Wales: From the Late Bronze Age to the Early Medieval Period, Cardiff: University of Wales Press.