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Garn Fawr
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1988
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1988 (1988)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Pencaer
- National Grid reference
- SM 896 388
- Latitude
- 52.00762
- Longitude
- -5.06707
- Altitude
- 213 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.3 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.7 ha, 2.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East); In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken, heather moorland, and built-up land
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures and other roundhouse evidence
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1707); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1966); Other (1981); Other (2008); Other (2009); Other (2011); Other (1985-1998); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE065(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 2830
- National record
- record SM 83 NE; monument 300425
- Wikidata
- Q31108348
Sources
References
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 187.
- Driver. T. 2007. Pembrokeshire: historic landscapes from the air, Aberystwyth: RCAHMW.
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1973. Gaer Fawr and Carn Ingli: two major Pembrokeshire hill-forts, Arch Camb, 122, 69-84.
- 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.
- Rees, S. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Dyfed, London: HMSO, 67-8.
- RCAMWM 1925. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VII, County of Pembroke, London: HMSO, No. 554.