August
21
/ 2019
Archaeologists working on the 2,500-year-old Dinas Dinlle hill fort on the Gwynedd coastline in Wales are racing a climate change clock to uncover the site’s secrets before they are lost to the sea. The bad news is there’s an ever-present threat of the eroding western edge of the site, the good news is there are probably hundreds of years before the whole site will drift away, so they should be able to unearth much of Dinas Dinlle’s archaeological treasures before then. History of the Dinas Dinlle Iron Age Fort Dinas Dinlle fort is located on a hill of glacial drift on the Caernarfonshire coastal plain. The unstable nature of the soil is a major cause of concern and explains much
