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Porth-Egr
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1990
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1990 (1990)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanrhian
- National Grid reference
- SM80093226
- Latitude
- 51.94522
- Longitude
- -5.20122
- Altitude
- 31 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- Other (1966); Other (1989); Other (1994-2006); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE549(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 2844
- National record
- record SM 83 SW; monument 309560
- Wikidata
- Q31108369
Sources
References
- Driver, T. 2007. Pembrokeshire, Historic Landscapes from the Air, Aberystwyth: RCAHMW, 32.
- 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 and SM93, Cambria Archaeology Report No. 2007/01, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.