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Great Castle Head, Dale
Pembrokeshire, Wales · Atlas WA1998
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1998 (1998)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dale
- National Grid reference
- SM 7992 0565
- Latitude
- 51.70627
- Longitude
- -5.18677
- Altitude
- 50 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 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall and timber-framed wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken, built-up land, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE195(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 2960
- National record
- record SM 70 NE; monument 301244
- Wikidata
- Q31108445
Sources
References
- Crane, P. 1999. Great Castle Head, Dale, Pembrokeshire 1999, archaeological investigation and survey, Cambria Archaeology Project Record No. 37960, unpublished report.
- Crane, P. 2001. Iron Age promontory fort to medieval castle?: excavations at Great Castle Head, Pembrokeshire 1999, Arch Camb, 148, 86-145.
- Driver, T. 2007. Pembrokeshire. Historic Landscapes from the Air, Aberystwyth: RCAHMW, 101.
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 176.
- 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, Arch in Wales, 48, 27-38.
- RCAMWM 1925. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VII, County of Pembroke, London: HMSO, No. 210.