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Little Castle Point, Dale
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1999
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1999 (1999)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dale
- National Grid reference
- SM 7980 0389
- Latitude
- 51.69042
- Longitude
- -5.18739
- Altitude
- 46 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.13 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1965-1975); Other (1994-2006); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE536(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 2962
- National record
- record SM 80 SW 1; monument 305365
- Wikidata
- Q31108458
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 SM70 and SM80, Cambria Archaeology Report No. 2007/01, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.