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Castlemartin Castle
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1873
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1873 (1873)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Castlemartin
- National Grid reference
- SR 9152 9840
- Latitude
- 51.64561
- Longitude
- -5.01480
- Altitude
- 55 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1865); Other (1965); Other (1981); Other (1993); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE166(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 564
- National record
- record SR 99 NW; monument 305415
- Wikidata
- Q31107774
Sources
References
- 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.