Location
- Atlas number
- WA1966 (1966)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Davids and the Cathedral Close
- National Grid reference
- SM 7628 2396
- Latitude
- 51.86920
- Longitude
- -5.25117
- Altitude
- 31 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 0, SW 0, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.93 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Blocked (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1973); Other (1981); Other (1989); Other (2011); Other (1994-2006); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE294(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 2728
- National record
- record SM 72 SE 9; monument 305396
- Wikidata
- Q31108252
Sources
References
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 174.
- 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.
- RCAMWM 1925. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VII, County of Pembroke, London: HMSO, No. 944.