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Castell Cynon
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1935
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1935 (1935)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cwm Gwaun
- National Grid reference
- SN05253452
- Latitude
- 51.97490
- Longitude
- -4.83692
- Altitude
- 175 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 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
- Water source
- stream
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1966); Other (1981); Other (1991-2001); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE308(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 1564
- National record
- record SN 03 SE 5; monument 304360
- Wikidata
- Q31108125
Sources
References
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 202.
- 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.
- RCAMWM 1925. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VII, County of Pembroke, London: HMSO, No. 769.