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Fishpond Camp
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1884
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1884 (1884)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stackpole
- National Grid reference
- SR 9715 9480
- Latitude
- 51.61534
- Longitude
- -4.93145
- Altitude
- 25 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- metal and animal bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1865); Excavation (1927); Other (1969); Other (1981-1994); Other (1993-2002); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE112(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 629
- National record
- record SR 99 SE; monument 305433
- Wikidata
- Q31107833
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, 181.
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1965. in Foster, I.LL and Daniel, G., Prehistory in early Wales, 134, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
- 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.
- Rees, S. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Dyfed, London: HMSO, 80-1.