• The Dinas Powys hillfort is an Iron Age hillfort near Dinas Powys, Glamorgan, Wales. It is just one of several thousand hillforts to have been constructed...
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    Dinas Powys (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈdinas ˈpɔwɪs]; also spelt "Dinas Powis" in English) is a small town and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales...
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  • culture. For instance, the Dinas Powys hillfort in South Wales saw resettlement in the fifth century, as did South Cadbury Hillfort which has revealed significant...
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  • Vale of Glamorgan Dinas Powys railway station Dinas Powys hillfort Dinas Rhondda, a village near Tonypandy, Rhondda Cynon Taf Dinas Rhondda railway station...
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    Gruffydd Maelor II, a prince of Powys Fadog, on the site of several earlier structures, including an Iron Age hillfort. Dinas Brân has been variously translated...
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    Llwyn Bryn-Dinas is an Iron Age hillfort on the north side of the Tanat valley, about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the village of Llangedwyn, in Powys, Wales....
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    Castell Dinas is a hillfort and castle in southern Powys, Wales. At 450 m (1,476 feet) (SO179301) it has the highest castle in England and Wales. It is...
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    the hillfort at Dinas Powys was a late Iron Age hillfort reoccupied from the 5th-6th centuries CE; similarly at Castell Dinas Brân a hillfort of c. 600...
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  • 6742), partial contour fort Dinas Gynfor (53°25′39″N 4°25′25″W / 53.4274°N 4.4236°W / 53.4274; -4.4236), promontory fort Dinas Porth Ruffydd (53°16′55″N...
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    the county. The county motto is: Powys – the paradise of Wales (Welsh: Powys Paradwys Cymru). On 1 April 1974, Powys was created under the Local Government...
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  • Royal Commissions. She learnt to excavate with Leslie Alcock at Dinas Powys hillfort whilst still at school. As an undergraduate, she excavated with Richard...
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  • alignments. There are 70 Iron Age hillforts, defensive enclosures and hut sites. The lists of scheduled monuments in Powys are as follows:- List of prehistoric...
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    covers a larger area outside the county boundary, including the towns of Dinas Powys and Penarth. Cardiff is the main commercial centre of Wales as well as...
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    Age hillfort is believed to have been occupied for some 300 years up to and including the first century BC. Pen Dinas is the largest Iron Age hillfort in...
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    rubbed off on a tree or rock. Excavations have been made at the Dinas Powys hillfort in Glamorgan of what seems to have been the court of an important...
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    Ordovices (category History of Powys)
    "Cornelius Tacitus, the Life of Cnæus Julius Agricola, chapter 18". Dinas Dinorwig Hillfort https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/95283/ Ordovices at Roman-Britain...
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    Tanat Valley (category Valleys of Powys)
    Cwm Rhiwarth. Various historic sites, including the Iron Age hillfort Llwyn Bryn-Dinas and the medieval St Melangell's Church are located along the valley...
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  • His major excavations included Dinas Powys hill fort in Wales, Cadbury Castle in Somerset and a series of major hillforts in Scotland. Alcock was born at...
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    Burfa Castle (category Hillforts in Powys)
    known as Burfa Hillfort, Burfa Bank Hillfort, or Burfa Camp) is an Iron Age hillfort near the tiny town of Old Radnor, Radnorshire in Powys, Wales. The site...
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    defeated the combined forces of Gwynedd and Powys at the Battle of Chester and the royal Cynddylan dynasty of Powys was overthrown by the Mercians at the end...
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    Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 29 September 2021. Cadw. "Ruperra Hillfort and Motte (GM511)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 20 June...
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    Maiden Castle is an Iron Age hillfort 1.6 mi (2.6 km) southwest of Dorchester, in the English county of Dorset. Hill forts were fortified hill-top settlements...
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    large lordships, Penmark and Dinas Powys. Penmark was split into the sub-manors of Fonmon, West Penmark and Barry. Dinas Powys was split into the sub-manors...
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    Black Mountains, United Kingdom (category Landforms of Powys)
    Hywel, and the remains of Castell Dinas, an 11th to 13th century castle built on the site of an Iron Age hillfort between Talgarth and Crickhowell. Cwmyoy...
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    Brecon (category Towns in Powys)
    the formation of the County of Powys, it remains an important local centre. Brecon is the third-largest town in Powys, after Newtown and Ystradgynlais...
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  • not including those parts that are no longer in Powys). Brecknockshire is the southern third of Powys, and encompasses the Brecon Beacons National Park...
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    Archaeology projects run by the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust with funding from Cadw the Dinas Dinlle hillfort excavations being undertaken by the Gwynedd...
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    Britain was made up of many tribes and kingdoms, associated with various hillforts. The Britons followed an Ancient Celtic religion overseen by druids. Some...
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    number of Welsh kingdoms formed in present-day Wales, including Gwynedd, Powys, Ceredigion, Dyfed, Brycheiniog, Ergyng and Gwent. While some rulers extended...
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    Llanymynech (category Villages in Powys)
    service for everything. Dyfed-Powys Police cover the Welsh side of the village, West Mercia Police cover the English side; Powys County Council are responsible...
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