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Holgan
Pembrokeshire, Wales · Atlas WA2074
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2074 (2074)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llawhaden
- National Grid reference
- SN 0730 1820
- Latitude
- 51.82905
- Longitude
- -4.79799
- Altitude
- 95 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.55 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1966); Other (1981); Excavation (1984); Other (2000); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889-1890); Other (2006-2007); Excavation (1980-1983)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE102(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 3573
- National record
- record SN 01 NE; monument 304410
- Wikidata
- Q31108606
Sources
References
- 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 SN01, Cambria Archaeology Report No. 2007/01, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.
- Williams, G.H. and Mytum, H. 1998. Llawhaden, Dyfed. Excavations on a group of small defended enclosures, 198-84, BAR British Series 275, Oxford: Archaeopress.