entity · site_bi_llwyn_bryn_dinas
Llwyn Bryn-dinas
Hilltop enclosure in Powys with a late ninth- to eighth-century BCE initial fortification.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
900 BCE–700 BCE
Precision: broad archaeological range
- informs · defines or contextualizes
Excavations and Metal-working at Llwyn Bryn-dinas Hillfort, Llangedwyn, Clwyd — C. R. Musson, W. J. Britnell, J. P. Northover, C. J. Salter, P. Q. Dresser, J. Fitt (1992)Dates the earliest fortification to the late ninth and eighth centuries BCE and separates it from much later metalworking.
Locator: Abstract; pp. 265–283; fortification chronology
Research description
The initial enclosure straddles the end of the release interval and beginning of the Early Iron Age. Later ironworking and subsequent phases must not be attributed to the Bronze Age occupation.
Evidence and sources
- supports · defines or contextualizes
Excavations and Metal-working at Llwyn Bryn-dinas Hillfort, Llangedwyn, Clwyd — C. R. Musson, W. J. Britnell, J. P. Northover, C. J. Salter, P. Q. Dresser, J. Fitt (1992)Dates the earliest fortification to the late ninth and eighth centuries BCE and separates it from much later metalworking.
Locator: Abstract; pp. 265–283; fortification chronology
Referenced records
- Wales archaeological search region · entity
- Geography assertion for site_bi_llwyn_bryn_dinas · geography assertion