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Merrion Camp
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1875
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1875 (1875)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Castlemartin
- National Grid reference
- SR 9400 9756
- Latitude
- 51.63898
- Longitude
- -4.97851
- Altitude
- 70 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 4, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1965); Other (1981); Other (2000); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1865-1866); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE055(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 573
- National record
- record SR 99 NW; monument 305419
- Wikidata
- Q31107784
Sources
References
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 188.
- 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.
- RCAMWM 1925. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VII, County of Pembroke, London: HMSO, No. 1161.