Location
- Atlas number
- WA1810 (1810)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Castlemartin
- National Grid reference
- SR 8886 9568
- Latitude
- 51.62019
- Longitude
- -5.05155
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.09 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North); Outworks (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1865); Excavation (1880); Other (1965); LiDAR Survey (2008); Other (1993-1997); Other (1999-2004); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE316(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 539
- National record
- record SR 89 NE; monument 94226
- Wikidata
- Q31107726
Sources
References
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 178.
- Murphy, K., Ramsey, R., Poucher, P. and Page, M. 2007. A SURVEY OF DEFENDED ENCLOSURES IN PEMBROKeSHIRE,
- 2006-07: GAZETTEER OF ORDNANCE SURVEY GRID SQUARES SR89, SR99, SS09 AND SS19, Cambria Archaeology Report No. 2007/01, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.
- Page, M., Barker, L., Driver, T. and Murphy, K. 2008. Remote sensing and the Iron Age promontory forts of Pembrokeshire. Archaeol Wales, 48, 27-38.
- RCAMWM 1925. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VII, County of Pembroke, London: HMSO, No. 142.