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Submitted by pab on Monday, 16 June 2008 Page Views: 11666
Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Craig-y-Dinas (Dyffryn Ardudwy)Country: Wales County: Gwynedd Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Barmouth Nearest Village: Dyffryn Ardudwy
Map Ref: SH62432300
Latitude: 52.786988N Longitude: 4.041377W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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w650marion visited on 21st May 2025 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 2 Getting to know this Hillfort quite well. It's now possible to understand the complex layout of the entrance passage.
w650marion visited on 18th May 2024 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 2 I love this Hillfort!
w650marion visited on 19th May 2023 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3 Removed someone's rubbish from under the big central rock. Skylarks and a cuckoo applauded!
w650marion PAB have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 5 Access: 2.33
COFLEIN describes Craig-y-Dinas as a “Stone walled polygonal hillfort 75mx40m with outworks extending 14m to NE, and extensive entrance works (walled trackway and stone clearance) to SE”. That is quite a size!
The staggered entrance would have been easily defended – not as formidable as those at Tre’r Ceiri across on the Llyn Peninsula, which I rather think is visible from Craid-y-Dinas (but which I need to check out with the bearings). The Google map shows it rather well – but don’t rely on a GPS, as ours went haywire as soon as we reached it, and the resulting tracks look like a seismograph plot in an earthquake!
I had not been able to find much text on the site before visiting it, but there did seem to be a possible stone cist-type structure at the western end on the enclosure – there can’t be many better places to be laid to rest! More research needed on this though, and I will post some pictures for comment in a couple of days.
In terms of access, there is a substantial dry-stone wall to be negotiated from the track near the Pont Scethin stones, and we saw no other obvious access.
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177m ESE 105° Hut Circle Settlement East of Craig Y Dinas* Ancient Village or Settlement (SH62602295)
528m NNE 17° Cairns North of Craig Y Dinas* Cairn (SH626235)
597m WNW 283° Craig-y-Dinas W* Cairn (SH61852315)
706m NNE 23° Pont Scethin A* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SH62732364)
710m S 176° Llyn Irddyn W* Ancient Village or Settlement (SH62462229)
760m NNE 27° Pont Scethin B* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SH62792367)
776m SSW 193° Tumulus, Llyn Irddyn* Round Barrow(s) (SH62232225)
965m NW 308° Cors Uchaf E Hut Group* Ancient Village or Settlement (SH61682361)
979m NNE 27° Pont Scethin Double Cairn* Cairn (SH62902386)
1.0km NNW 333° Hut Group and Enclosures on SW Slope of Moelfre* Ancient Village or Settlement (SH62002391)
1.1km ENE 78° Enclosure and Hut Circle, Pont Scethin* Ancient Village or Settlement (SH63502320)
1.2km SSW 208° Llyn Irddyn Hut Circle* Cairn (SH61862198)
1.2km W 271° Cors-Y-Gedol E* Cairn (SH61252305)
1.2km WNW 282° Cors Uchaf S* Cairn (SH61232330)
1.3km WSW 238° Ponfadog Bridge* Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature (SH61312235)
1.4km W 265° Hut Circle, N of Afon Ysgethin* Ancient Village or Settlement (SH61062293)
1.5km WSW 246° Craig y Dinas Trackway Ancient Trackway (SH610224)
1.6km SW 229° Cairns SE from Pont Fadog* Cairn (SH612220)
1.6km N 5° Moelfre (Gwynedd)* Round Cairn (SH62612458)
1.6km WSW 258° Pont Fadog N Hut Circles* Ancient Village or Settlement (SH60842272)
1.8km SW 226° Cairn East of Eithinfynydd* Cairn (SH6110021800)
1.8km SW 225° Llecheiddior* Stone Circle (SH61112174)
1.8km WNW 302° Waun Hir* Ring Cairn (SH609240)
1.9km SSW 203° Ffridd Newydd* Stone Circle (SH61642129)
1.9km W 262° Cors Y Gedol Field System* Ancient Village or Settlement (SH605228)
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