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Buckspool Down Camp
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1883
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1883 (1883)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stackpole
- National Grid reference
- SR 9543 9340
- Latitude
- 51.60215
- Longitude
- -4.95545
- Altitude
- 35 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.55 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1865); Other (1965); Other (1999); Excavation (1930); Other (1981-2006); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE320(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 609
- National record
- record SR 99 SE; monument 305429
- Wikidata
- Q31107821
Sources
References
- Barker, L. and Driver, T., 2011. Close to the Edge: New Perspectives on the Architecture, Function and Regional Geographies of the Coastal Promontory Forts of the Castlemartin Peninsula, South Pembrokeshire, Wales. Proc Prehist Soc, 77, 65-87.
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 179.
- Grimes, W.F. 1931. Roman-British pottery from Crocksydam Camp, Warren , Pemb., Bull Board Celtic Stud, 5, 394-5.
- 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. 47.
- Rees, S. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Dyfed, London: HMSO, 81.