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Bedd-y-Cawr, St Asaph
Denbighshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1528
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1528 (1528)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Historic county
- Denbighshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cefnmeiriadog
- National Grid reference
- SJ 0132 7205
- Latitude
- 53.23627
- Longitude
- -3.48000
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and ridge
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1874); Other (2007-2008)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 102131
- National record
- record SJ 07 SW 13; monument 306688
- Wikidata
- Q31118674
Sources
References
- Davies, Canon Ellis 1929. The prehistoric and Roman remains of Denbighshire, Cardiff: William Lewis, 67.
- Grant, I. and Jones, N.W. 2008. Defended enclosures in North-east Wales, 2007-08, Project Report, CPAT Report No 921, Welshpool: CPAT.