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Denant
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2095
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2095 (2095)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tiers Cross
- National Grid reference
- SM 9220 1310
- Latitude
- 51.77785
- Longitude
- -5.01375
- Altitude
- 40 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1981); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889-1890); Other (1965-1975); Other (1991-2002); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE215(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 5810
- National record
- record SM 91 SW 1; monument 305260
- Wikidata
- Q31108803
Sources
References
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 180.
- Murphy, K., Ramsey, R., Poucher, P. and Page, M. 2007. A SURVEY OF DEFENDED ENCLOSURES IN PEMBROKeSHIRE,
- 2006-07: GAZETTEER OF ORDNANCE SURVEY GRID SQUARE SN71, SN81 and SN91, 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. 1106.