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Gilfach-Hafel Camp

Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA1814

Location

Atlas number
WA1814 (1814)
Country
Wales
Current county or unitary authority
Ceredigion
Historic county
Cardiganshire
Parish, community, or townland
Llanrhystyd Mefenydd
National Grid reference
SN55907005
Latitude
52.30957
Longitude
-4.11518
Altitude
130 m

Form and condition

Type
contour 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
1
Breaks through the ramparts
1
Enclosed area
0.6 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank
Also recorded
ditches
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (West)

Landscape

Topographic position
hilltop and ridge
Aspect
level
Land use
woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
Other (2006); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887-1888)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
CD095
HER
Dyfed 734
National record
record SN 57 SE; monument 303890
Wikidata
Q31109122

Sources

References

  1. Hogg, A.H.A. 1962. List of hill-forts in Cardiganshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 19, 359.
  2. Hughes, I.T. 1926. A regional survey of the prehistoric earthworks of North Cardiganshire, Trans Cardiganshire Ant Soc, 4 (1926), 22-56.
  3. Murphy, K, Ramsey, R. and Page, M. 2006. A survey of defended enclosures in Ceredigion 2006: Gazetteer of Ordnance Survey Grid Squares SN56, SN57, and SN58, Project Report No. 2006/20, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.