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Howney Stone Rath
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2009
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2009 (2009)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- The Havens
- National Grid reference
- SM 8200 1277
- Latitude
- 51.77101
- Longitude
- -5.16117
- Altitude
- 40 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Other (1981); Other (1965-1975); Other (1992-2002); Other (1994-1996); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE282(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 3148
- National record
- record SM 81 SW 16; monument 305346
- Wikidata
- Q31108542
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 SM71, SM81 and SM91, 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. 1118.