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<< Our Photo Pages >> Castle An Dinas (Penwith) - Hillfort in England in Cornwall

Submitted by h_fenton on Friday, 24 March 2023  Page Views: 22925

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Castle An Dinas (Penwith) Alternative Name: Castle-an-Dinas
Country: England County: Cornwall Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Penzance  Nearest Village: Nancledra
Map Ref: SW48493500  Landranger Map Number: 203
Latitude: 50.161560N  Longitude: 5.522876W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Castle An Dinas (Penwith)
Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by h_fenton : Castle-an-Dinas hillfort from the North-West. The structure on the far side of the hillfort is a folly that was constructed in 1798 and is known as Rogers Tower. Stone from the defences of the hillfort were used in the constuction of this tower. Kite Aerial Photograph 16 October 2008 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Castle-an-Dinas, near Nancledra to the north of Penzance, is an ancient hill fort with three rings of defence that go all the the way around this hillfort. There was an inner wall, which you can just see evidence of inside of the hillfort from the tower. There was then a second wall which Rogers Tower - a folly, built 1798 - was built on top of. Beyond this there is a bank. On the North west side of the hillfort there is a further bank and ditch but this is incomplete/unfinished and does not go right around the whole fort.

In the middle of the fort is an Ordnance Survey Trig point. Near the trig point is a circular feature that it is suggested could be the site of a hut circle 7 metres in diameter.

Not to be confused with another site with the same name near Bodmin at SW945624.
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Castle An Dinas (Penwith)
Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup : Sunset into Carn Galver from Castle an Dinas (Vote or comment on this photo)

Castle An Dinas (Penwith)
Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup : A hut circle within the fort with the folly in the background, Just to the left of the folly is St Michael's Mount (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup : The South Western part of the Fort looking WNW towards the sun over Carn Galver (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup : Castle An Dinas (Penwith), Looking ENE Towards Trencrom from the Northern Bank of the Fort (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup : Castle An Dinas (Penwith), NW entrance looking North

Castle An Dinas (Penwith)
Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup : Castle An Dinas (Penwith) looking over to Trencrom (in the background on the left)

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Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup : Castle An Dinas (Penwith) northern defences

Castle An Dinas (Penwith)
Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup : Castle An Dinas (Penwith), showing the forts main defences and landscape

Castle An Dinas (Penwith)
Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup : Castle An Dinas (Penwith). A Hut Circle within the Fort, the hill in the background is Rosewall Hill.

Castle An Dinas (Penwith)
Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup : Castle An Dinas (Penwith). Stone kerbing in the bank next to the folly

Castle An Dinas (Penwith)
Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup : Castle An Dinas (Penwith). On the right is the inner bank, but just visible on the left is the very slight (more inner) bank thought to have been from an earlier Bronze Age enclosure

Castle An Dinas (Penwith)
Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup : Castle An Dinas (Penwith). A Hut Circle inside the Fort

Castle An Dinas (Penwith)
Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by LiveAndrew : Castle-an-Dinas: inner and outer walls

Castle An Dinas (Penwith)
Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup : Castle An Dinas (Penwith), Unfinished defences, Trencrom is in the background on the right of the photo.

Castle An Dinas (Penwith)
Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup : Castle An Dinas (Penwith), Inner bank.

Castle An Dinas (Penwith)
Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup : The folly.

Castle An Dinas (Penwith)
Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup : Looking over the defences at Castle An Dinas (Penwith), Rosewall hill is in the distance on the left of the photo.

Castle An Dinas (Penwith)
Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup : These stones look like they were once part of a hut in Castle-an-Dinas, the folly and St Michael's mount are in the background.

Castle An Dinas (Penwith)
Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup : Looking at St Michael's mount from the folly built on and out of Castle-an-Dinas.

Castle An Dinas (Penwith)
Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup : These big stones between 2 banks at Castle-an-Dinas seem like something, they certainly didn't get like that by themselves.

Castle An Dinas (Penwith)
Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup : Some of the banks and ditches at Castle-an-Dinas.

Castle An Dinas (Penwith)
Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup

Castle An Dinas (Penwith)
Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup : In the right foreground is a big stone lined pit built into the bank, it's the right size to have held a big tree trunk, In the left foreground is a little standing stone.

Castle An Dinas (Penwith)
Castle An Dinas (Penwith) submitted by Bladup : A possible Hut circle inside Castle-an-Dinas fort.

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Re: Castle An Dinas (Penwith) by Anonymous on Friday, 31 December 2010
Mrs. Craik - in "An unsentimental Journey through Cornwall" 1884 - describes Castle an Dinas as "King Arthur's Hunting Castle". I only mention it as an entertianing bit of local folklore.
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