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Berry Hill
Pembrokeshire, Wales · Atlas WA2100
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2100 (2100)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Nevern
- National Grid reference
- SN 0688 3952
- Latitude
- 52.02037
- Longitude
- -4.81604
- Altitude
- 40 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- 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
- 0.64 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Geophysical Survey (2006); Other (2006); Excavation (2007); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dyfed 14342
- National record
- record SN 03 NE; monument 309491
- Wikidata
- Q31108684
Sources
References
- Murphy, K. and Mytum, H. 2007. Excavations at Berry Hill Inland Promontory fort, Newport, Arch in Wales, 47, 82-88.
- Murphy, K., Ramsey, R., Poucher, P. and Page, M. 2007. A SURVEY OF DEFENDED ENCLOSURES IN PEMBROKeSHIRE,
- 2006-07: GAZETTEER OF ORDNANCE SURVEY GRID SQUARES SN03, SN13,and SN23, Cambria Archaeology Report No. 2007/01, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.