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Little Aber Pwll, Caerau
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1994
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1994 (1994)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Davids and the Cathedral Close St David's
- National Grid reference
- SM 790 308
- Latitude
- 51.93168
- Longitude
- -5.21611
- Altitude
- 35 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1966); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1989); Other (1996); Other (2003); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE392(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 2907
- National record
- record SM 73 SE; monument 305402
- Wikidata
- Q31108412
Sources
References
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 175.
- Driver, T. 2007. Pembrokeshire. Historic Landscapes from the Air, Aberystwyth: RCAHMW, 100.
- Lynch, F., Aldhouse-Green, S. and Lynch, F. 2000: Prehistoric Wales, Stroud: Sutton Publishing.
- 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.
- RCAMWM 1925. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VII, County of Pembroke, London: HMSO, No. 947.
- Rees, S. 1992: Dyfed A Guide to Ancient and Historic Wales, 68-9, photo, London: HMSO;