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Castell Tre Ruffydd
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1902
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1902 (1902)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Nevern
- National Grid reference
- SN 1004 4486
- Latitude
- 52.06941
- Longitude
- -4.77301
- Altitude
- 68 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1994); Other (1992-2003); Other (1993-2006); Other (2006-2007); 1st Identified Written Reference (1600)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE214(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 1157
- National record
- record SN 14 SW; monument 304087
- Wikidata
- Q31107969
Sources
References
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 179.
- Davies 1980. Aspects of Native Settlement in Roman Wales, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Wales.
- 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 SN04 and SN14, 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. 721.