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Dinas Mawr, Llanwnda, Pen-Caer
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1987
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1987 (1987)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Pencaer
- National Grid reference
- SM 888 387
- Latitude
- 52.00641
- Longitude
- -5.07865
- Altitude
- 61 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.91 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1707); Earthwork Survey (1707); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1966); Other (1981); Other (1993); Other (2007); Other (2011); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE075(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 2828
- National record
- record SM 83 NE; monument 305289
- Wikidata
- Q31108337
Sources
References
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 178.
- Driver, T. 2007. Pembrokeshire. Historic Landscapes from the Air, Aberystwyth: RCAHMW, 102.
- Lluyd, E. 1707. Archaeologia Britannica, Vol 1, Oxford: Glossography.
- 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 SN73, SN83 AND SN93. 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. 553.