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Greenala Camp
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2087
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2087 (2087)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stackpole
- National Grid reference
- SS 0065 9658
- Latitude
- 51.63258
- Longitude
- -4.88198
- Altitude
- 35 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (North east); Simple Gap (North east); In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Finds
- human bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1865); Other (1965); Other (1981); LiDAR Survey (2008); Other (2009); Other (1897-1906); Other (1992-2000); Other (1994-1996); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE046(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 4205
- National record
- record SS 09 NW; monument 94956
- Wikidata
- Q31108747
Sources
References
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 179.
- 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 SR89, SR99, SS09, SS19, Cambria Archaeology Report No. 2007/01, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.
- Page, M., Barker, L., Driver, T. and Murphy, K. 2008. Remote sensing and the Iron Age promontory forts of Pembrokeshire. Archaeol Wales, 48, 27-38.
- Rees, S, 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Dyfed, London: HMSO, 82
- 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. 1047.