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West Pennar Rath
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2049
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2049 (2049)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hundleton
- National Grid reference
- SM 9337 0304
- Latitude
- 51.68795
- Longitude
- -4.99085
- Altitude
- 31 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Excavation (1979); Other (1981); Other (1965-1975); Other (1993-2000); Other (1994-1997); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE262(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 3227
- National record
- record SM 90 SW; monument 305288
- Wikidata
- Q31108559
Sources
References
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 194.
- 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 SM90 and SN00, 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. 876.