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Dryslwyn Castle
Carmarthenshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2124
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2124 (2124)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Historic county
- Carmarthenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangathen
- National Grid reference
- SN55402035
- Latitude
- 51.86290
- Longitude
- -4.10142
- Altitude
- 86 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.28 ha
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1968); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1986-1998)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CM030(CAM)
- HER
- Dyfed 703
- National record
- record SN 52 SE; monument 100682
- Wikidata
- Q31110180
Sources
References
- Rees, S.E. and Caple, C. 2007. Dinefwr Castle - Dryslwyn Castle, CADW Guide, Revised Edition (2007), Cardiff: CADW.
- 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, 457, London: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1954. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Carmarthenshire. Bull Board Celtic Stud, 16, 61.