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<< Our Photo Pages >> Fort Dinas, Porth Ruffydd - Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle in Wales in Anglesey

Submitted by guile on Tuesday, 22 October 2013  Page Views: 6575

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Fort Dinas, Porth Ruffydd
Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 39.9 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Anglesey Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Nearest Town: Holyhead
Map Ref: SH22277941
Latitude: 53.281787N  Longitude: 4.667367W
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
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 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.
1 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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Fort Dinas, Porth Ruffydd.
Fort Dinas, Porth Ruffydd. submitted by guile : Fort Dinas, Porth Ruffydd. I guess a brave person could scramble down the cliffs and across the "causeway" then clamber up to the Fort from here. If you do, you are a better man than me! (Vote or comment on this photo)
Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle in Anglesey

Surrounded by precipitous cliffs made of pre-cambrian rock tortuously folded and treachourous underfoot, I couldn't see any way onto this promontory without a helicopter or a complete disregard for personal safety.

That said, the interior has been raided over the years by metal detectors and chancers with reports of pottery, spindle whorls, coins and bucket mounts being uncovered.

It was scheduled in 1981 as an Ancient Monument to prevent any further illegal digging on this site.
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Fort Dinas, Porth Ruffydd.
Fort Dinas, Porth Ruffydd. submitted by guile : Fort Dinas, Porth Ruffydd. A tough nut to crack. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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SH2279 : Dinas - an Iron Age Fort on a partially cut off headland by Eric Jones
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SH2279 : Dinas, the site of a small Iron Age fort by Eric Jones
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SH2279 : The Dinas promontory from Graig Lwyd by Eric Jones
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SH2279 : Dinas from the west by Eric Jones
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Re: Fort Dinas, Porth Ruffydd by guile on Thursday, 24 October 2013
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The Coflein site seems to have had some sort of revamp, I always found it bleak, difficult to use and austere. This description from there is actually rather informative.

A late prehistoric type promontory fort set upon what is almost an offshore islet. This is cliff-girt with a generally level summit roughly 140m east-west by 80m. It is separated from the mainland a dramatic cliff-lined east-west chasm crossed only by a low causeway at the western end, now choked with boulders.

A roughly 120m long low spread bank or rampart runs along the lip of the chasm facing the shore, turning to the south at its eastern end. This is perhaps 5.0m wide and rises 0.8m above the interior. This may represent a ruined wall. Much of the summit of the promontory is now bare rock. Possible roundhouse emplacements have been observed and these can be discerned on RCAHMW aerial coverage (AP995062/46).

A bronze coin, originally silvered, of Carausius, the separatist Emperor (286-93 AD), was found upon the promontory in 1977. It is possible that the fort was established in the Roman period although an earlier date is equally likely.

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