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Porth y Rhaw Camp
Pembrokeshire, Wales · Atlas WA1965
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1965 (1965)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Solva
- National Grid reference
- SM 786 242
- Latitude
- 51.87228
- Longitude
- -5.21768
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.44 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC, 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, AD 50–400, and AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1891); Other (1973); Other (1981); Other (1989); Other (1993); Other (1994); LiDAR Survey (2008); 1st Identified Written Reference (1808-1809); Excavation (1995-1998); Other (2006-2007); Geophysical Survey (None
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE273(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 2721
- National record
- record SM 72 SE 4; monument 94210
- Wikidata
- Q31108242
Sources
References
- Crane, P. and Murphy, K. 2010. The excavation of a coastal promontory fort at Porth y Rhaw, Solva, Pembrokeshire, 1995-1998. Archaeol Cambrensis, 159, 53-98.
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 175.
- Driver, T. 2007. Pembrokeshire. Historic landscapes from the air, Aberystwyth: RCAHMW, 107.
- Fenton, R. 1903. A historical tour through Pembrokeshire, Facsimile of 2nd edn., Dyfed County Council 1994.
- Jones, B. and Freeman, E.A. 1856. The history and antiquity of Saint David's, London.
- 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 SM72 and SM82, Cambria Archaeology Report No. 2007/01, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.
- Page, M., Barker, L., Driver, T. and Murphy, K. 2008. Remote sensing and the Iron Age coastal promontory forts of Pembrokeshire, Arch in Wales, 48, 27-38.
- RCAMWM 1925. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VII, County of Pembroke, London: HMSO, No. 1168.