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Great Castle Head, St Ishmael's
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2003
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2003 (2003)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Ishmael's
- National Grid reference
- SM 8482 0603
- Latitude
- 51.71158
- Longitude
- -5.11619
- Altitude
- 23 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 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- scrub or bracken, built-up land, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1965); Other (1997); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1874-1876); Other (1991-2003); Other (1994-2003); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE416(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 3006
- National record
- record SM 80 NW 28; monument 305356
- Wikidata
- Q31108513
Sources
References
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 177.
- 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. 1047.