Castle-an-Dinas

Inscribed plate showing the position of Castle-an-Dinas in relation to the surrounding areas. Castle an Dinas is an Iron Age hillfort and is considered one of the most important hillforts in the southwest of Britain. It dates from around the 3rd to 2nd century BCE and consists of three ditch and rampart concentric rings, 850 feet above sea level. During the early 1960s it was excavated by a team led by Dr. Bernard Wailes of the University of Pennsylvania during two seasons of excavation. Local legends include links to King Arthur, the English civil war, a ghost army, and the imprisonment in a cage of the murderer John Trehenban. It was also the site of Cornwall's largest wolfram mine.