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Marloes Sound Rath
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1996
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1996 (1996)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Marloes and St Brides
- National Grid reference
- SM 7687 0794
- Latitude
- 51.72563
- Longitude
- -5.23230
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 1, SW 0, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
- Water source
- stream
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Other (1973); Other (1981); LiDAR Survey (2008); Other (2009); Other (1994-1996); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE194(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 2939
- National record
- record SM 70 NE 1; monument 305362
- Wikidata
- Q31108420
Sources
References
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 174.
- 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 SM70 and SM80, Cambria Archaeology Report No. 2007/01, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.
- Page, M., Barker, L., Driver, T. and Murphy, K. 2008. Remote sensing and the Iron Age coastal promontory forts of Pembrokeshire, Archaeol Wales, 48, 27-38.
- RCAMWM 1925. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VII, County of Pembroke, London: HMSO, No. 656.