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Caerau Gaer, Llandewi Velfrey
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2092
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2092 (2092)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanddewi Velfrey
- National Grid reference
- SN 1398 1610
- Latitude
- 51.81246
- Longitude
- -4.70003
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1981); Other (1965-1975); Other (2002-2006); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE176(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 4905
- National record
- record SN 11 NW 5; monument 3042456
- Wikidata
- Q31108799
Sources
References
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 197.
- 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 SN10, SN11 and SN12, 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. 421.