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Skomar Camp, Lydstep
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2088
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2088 (2088)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Manorbier
- National Grid reference
- SS 0848 9760
- Latitude
- 51.64446
- Longitude
- -4.76954
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- scrub or bracken, built-up land, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1965); Other (1996-2006); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE545(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 4210
- National record
- record SS 09 NE 3; monument 305446
- Wikidata
- Q31108783
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.
- 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. 650.