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Capeston Rath
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2004
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2004 (2004)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Walwyn's Castle
- National Grid reference
- SM 8678 0948
- Latitude
- 51.74331
- Longitude
- -5.08998
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Barbican (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1876); Other (1965); Other (1981); Other (2002); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE193(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 3015
- National record
- record SM 80 NE 4; monument 305349
- Wikidata
- Q31108516
Sources
References
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 183.
- 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. 1154.