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Castell Nanhyfer, Nevern
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1939
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1939 (1939)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Nevern
- National Grid reference
- SN 082 401
- Latitude
- 52.02603
- Longitude
- -4.79715
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1974); Other (1981); Other (2011); Other (1992-2003); Other (2006-2007); Excavation (2008-2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE160(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 1600
- National record
- record SN 04 SE; monument 304392
- Wikidata
- Q31108153
Sources
References
- Caple, C. 2008, 2009, 2010. Nevern Castle excavations, Interim reports, Arch in Wales, 48 (2008), 49 (2009), 50 (2010).
- Driver, T. 2007. Pembrokeshire: Historic Landscapes from the Air, Aberystwyth: RCAHMW, 152.
- King, D.J.C. and Perks, J.C. 1951. Castell Nanhyfer, Nevern (Pemb.), Arch Camb, 101, 123-28.
- 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.
- Turvey, R. 1989. Nevern Castle: a new interpretation, J Pemb Hist Soc, 3, 65.