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Castell Caerwen
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1927
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1927 (1927)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cwm Gwaun
- National Grid reference
- SN01733416
- Latitude
- 51.97042
- Longitude
- -4.88790
- Altitude
- 99 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.43 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1964); Other (1981-1998); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE407(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 1538
- National record
- record SN 03 SW 9; monument 304365
- Wikidata
- Q31108120
Sources
References
- Fenton, R.A. 1994. A historical tour through Pembrokeshire, Haverfordwest: Reprinted by Cyngor Sir Dyfed County Council , Cultural Services Department.
- 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.