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Ynys-y-Castell, Abercastle
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1993
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1993 (1993)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mathry
- National Grid reference
- SM 8513 3392
- Latitude
- 51.96209
- Longitude
- -5.12904
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1966); Other (1976); Other (1985); Other (1998); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE038(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 2864
- National record
- record SM 83 SE; monument 276022
- Wikidata
- Q31108404
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.