Penycloddiau

Penycloddiau (Welsh hills of the trenches ) is a 440 m high mountain ASL in Flintshire, Wales.

Prehistoric attachment

The currently under excavation, about 26 hectares Hill Fort Penycloddiau is the second largest hill fort in Wales. It was errichetet around 500 BC. It surrounds the oval summit of one of the larger hills in the Clwydian Range. Near the summit, a Bronze Age grave mound is located ( built around 2000 BC). Over the hill and through the Hill Fort Offa 's Dyke.

The entire hill is surrounded by large walls and ditches. On the steep southern slope there is only one wall. In the north, where the slope is less, there are several ditches and ramparts. Earlier excavations in the region suggest that such a large Hill forts are the older of the two types of Iron Age fortifications height in the British Isles. The excavations are to clarify the origins of the hill fortifications in the west of Britain.