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Trwyn-y-Castell
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1967
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1967 (1967)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanrhian
- National Grid reference
- SM 7940 3149
- Latitude
- 51.93804
- Longitude
- -5.21074
- Altitude
- 35 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 5, SE 5, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 5
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.66 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1966); Other (1989); Other (1994-2006); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dyfed 2733
- National record
- record SM 73 SE; monument 102710
- Wikidata
- Q31108190
Sources
References
- 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 SM73, SM83 and SM93, Cambria Archaeology Report No. 2007/01, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.