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South Hook Camp
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2001
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2001 (2001)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Herbrandston
- National Grid reference
- SM 8660 0625
- Latitude
- 51.71424
- Longitude
- -5.09060
- Altitude
- 23 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 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
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
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1874); Other (1981); Other (2003); Other (1965-1975); Other (1994-1997); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE307(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 3025
- National record
- record SM 80 NE 14; monument 305348
- Wikidata
- Q31108479
Sources
References
- 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.