Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dinas Porth Ruffydd
Trearddur, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Hillfort
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 16 June 1978
- Community
- Trearddur
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.28187, -4.66712
- SAM number
- AN121
- Cadw record number
- 2547
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Monument.
A promontory separated from the mainland by a deep chasm which makes the site nearly inaccessible. A grassed-over bank 0.5 m high runs along the landward side of the promontory, turning at the E end to run for a further 10 m along the cliff edge. Possible hut sites occupy the interior.
An Antoninianus of the late 3rd C AD and two Romano-British bronze ox-head bucket-handle mounts, also probably of 3rd C date, were found as the result of the use of a metal detector in March 1977.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of Romano British/Prehistoric settlement and defence. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. The structures themselves may be expected to contain archaeological information concerning chronology and building techniques.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Old Customs PostCivilunder 1 mi
- Porth Dafarch Hut CirclesRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Penrhosfeilw Standing StonesStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Plas Meilw Hut CirclesUnenclosed hut circle1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.