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Poll Carn
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1950
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1950 (1950)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wolfscastle
- National Grid reference
- SM 9522 2450
- Latitude
- 51.88132
- Longitude
- -4.97678
- Altitude
- 140 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- chevaux de frise and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and hillslope
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1965); Other (2006); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dyfed 2466
- National record
- record SM 92 SE; monument 308795
- Wikidata
- Q31108110
Sources
References
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 188.
- Murphy, K., Ramsey, R., Poucher, P. and Page, M. 2007. A SURVEY OF DEFENDED ENCLOSURES IN PEMBROKSHIRE,
- 2006-07: GAZETTEER OF ORDNANCE SURVEY GRID SQUARES SM92, Cambria Archaeology Report No. 2007/01, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.