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Keeston Castle
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2110
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2110 (2110)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Camrose
- National Grid reference
- SM 8984 1958
- Latitude
- 51.83515
- Longitude
- -5.05184
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 5.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- 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 (1973-1975); Other (1985-1998); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE216(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 3106
- National record
- record SM 81 NE; monument 305332
- Wikidata
- Q31108826
Sources
References
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 190.
- 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 SM71, SM81 and SM91, Cambria Archaeology Report No. 2007/01, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.
- RCAMWM 1925. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VII, County of Pembroke, London: HMSO, No. 108.