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Pen-y-Garn
Carmarthenshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2119
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2119 (2119)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Historic county
- Carmarthenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanfihangel Aberbythych
- National Grid reference
- SN57641898
- Latitude
- 51.85117
- Longitude
- -4.06835
- Altitude
- 204 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1968); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886-1887); Other (1986-1998); Other (2007-2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CM150(CAM)
- HER
- Dyfed 641
- National record
- record SN 51 NE; monument 303967
- Wikidata
- Q31110069
Sources
References
- Murphy, F., Ramsey, R., Page, M. and Murphy, K. 2008. A SURVEY OF DEFENDED ENCLOSURES IN CARMARTHENSHIRE, 2007-08: GAZETTEER OF ORDNANCE SURVEY GRID SQUARES SN51, SN52 and SN54, DYFED ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST REPORT NO. 2007/27, PROJECT RECORD NO. 62767, Llandeilo: Dyfed Archaeological Trust.
- Royal Commission on the ancient and historical monuments and constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire 1917. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, V, Carmarthen, 376, London: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1954. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Carmarthenshire. Bull Board Celtic Stud, 16, 61.