What is recorded here
The National Monuments Record of Wales records Dinas Emrys as Castle; Hillfort from the Medieval; Early Medieval; Roman; Iron Age period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Dinas Emrys was originally an Iron Age hillfort, later occupied and possibly modified by the Romans and then used again in the Early Medieval period. It is historically important as a site linked to Welsh legend, particularly the stories of Merlin and the Two Dragons.
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