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Carn Alw
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1896
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1896 (1896)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Eglwyswrw
- National Grid reference
- SN 1390 3370
- Latitude
- 51.97050
- Longitude
- -4.71069
- Altitude
- 243 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.19 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- chevaux de frise
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- heather moorland and heath
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1973); Other (1974); Other (1981); Other (1989); Other (2011); Other (1986-1998); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE375(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 1036
- National record
- record SN 13 SW 17; monument 94240
- Wikidata
- Q31107960
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 SN03, SN13 AND SN23. Cambria Archaeology Report No. 2007/01, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.
- Mytum, H. and Webster, C.J. 1989. A survey of the Iron Age enclosure and chevaux-de-frise at Carn Alw, Dyfed, Proc Prehist Soc, 55, 263-7.
- Rees, S. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Dyfed, London: HMSO, 60-1.