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Castell Rhyd-y-Brwyn
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1918
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1918 (1918)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- New Moat
- National Grid reference
- SN 0667 2230
- Latitude
- 51.86565
- Longitude
- -4.80941
- Altitude
- 83 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 1, SW 1, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North); Outworks (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1974); Other (1981); Other (1991-2002); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE269(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 1410
- National record
- record SN 02 SE 11; monument 304482
- Wikidata
- Q31108038
Sources
References
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 185.
- 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 SN02, 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. 804.