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Llanddewi Gaer
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2081
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2081 (2081)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanddewi Velfrey
- National Grid reference
- SN 1446 1607
- Latitude
- 51.81235
- Longitude
- -4.69306
- Altitude
- 130 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Passage-way/Corridor (North west); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1981); Other (2006); Other (1965-1975); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE086(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 3719
- National record
- record SN 11 NW 6; monument 304248
- Wikidata
- Q31108666
Sources
References
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 186.
- Murphy, K., Ramsey, R., Poucher, P. and Page, M. 2007. A SURVEY OF DEFENDED ENCLOSURES IN PEMBROKSHIRE,
- 2006-07: GAZETTEER OF ORDNANCE SURVEY GRID SQUARES SN11, SN12 and SN13, Cambria Archaeology Report No. 2007/01, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.
- Rees, S. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Dyfed, London: HMSO, 83.
- 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. 420.