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Brawdy Castle
Pembrokeshire, Wales · Atlas WA1985
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1985 (1985)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Brawdy
- National Grid reference
- SM 8628 2395
- Latitude
- 51.87303
- Longitude
- -5.10614
- Altitude
- 80 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1973); Excavation (1985-1990); Other (1985-2002); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE422(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 2820
- National record
- record SM 82 SE; monument 305322
- Wikidata
- Q31108324
Sources
References
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 180.
- Dark, K.R. 1990. Brawdy. Unpublished interim reports. No details.
- 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 SM72 and SM82, Cambria Archaeology Report No. 2007/01, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.