Penycloddiau

Penycloddiau
Penycloddiau
	; A view of the outer defence wall at Penycloddiau hill fort, Denbighshire
Elevation	440 m (1,444 ft)
Prominence	c. 156 m
Parent peak	Moel Famau
Listing	Marilyn
Translation	peak of the mounds (Welsh)
Pronunciation	Welsh: [pɛnəˈklɔðjai]
Location
Location	Denbighshire, Wales
Range	Clwydian Range
Topo map	OS Landranger 116
OS grid	SJ127678

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Penycloddiau (Welsh for "hill of the trenches") is a hill in Denbighshire, North Wales and is the northernmost marilyn in the Clwydian Range.^{[citation needed]}

Offa's Dyke Path crosses the summit, and the Clwydian Way skirts the western slopes.^{[citation needed]} Like Foel Fenlli further south, Penycloddiau has an iron-age hill fort around the summit area.^[2] At 26 hectares (64 acres), it is one of the largest hill forts in Wales.^[2]

[edit] See also

^ ^a ^b Alan Dawson (1992). Relative Hills of Britain. Cicerone Series. Cicerone Press Limited. pp. 125. ISBN 9781852840686.
^ ^a ^b John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, and Menna Baines, ed. (2008). The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales. University of Wales Press. pp. 151,981. ISBN 9780708319536.

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Penycloddiau
A view of the outer defence wall at Penycloddiau hill fort, Denbighshire
Elevation	440 m (1,444 ft) ^[1]
Prominence	c. 156 m
Parent peak	Moel Famau
Listing	Marilyn
Translation	peak of the mounds (Welsh)
Pronunciation	Welsh: [pɛnəˈklɔðjai]
Location
Location	Denbighshire, Wales
Range	Clwydian Range
Topo map	OS Landranger 116^[1]
OS grid	SJ127678