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Dale Point
Pembrokeshire, Wales · Atlas WA2002
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2002 (2002)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dale
- National Grid reference
- SM 8212 0521
- Latitude
- 51.70318
- Longitude
- -5.15470
- Altitude
- 20 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 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC, 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- rectangular structures and roads or tracks
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Other (1965-1975); Excavation (1966-1983); Excavation (1987-1992); Other (1994-1997); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE322(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 2986
- National record
- record SM 80 NW; monument 95060
- Wikidata
- Q31108501
Sources
References
- Benson, D.G. and Williams, G.H. 1987. Dale promontory fort, Arch in Wales, 27, 43.
- Benson, D.G. and Ramsey, R. 1992. Dale promontory fort, Arch in Wales, 32), 68-9.
- 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.
- RCAMWM 1925: Pembrokeshire Inventory No. 214; RCAMWM 1925. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VII, County of Pembroke, London: HMSO, No. 214.
- Rees, S. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Dyfed, London: HMSO, 78-9.