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Pen y Gaer, Llanybydder
Carmarthenshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2127
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2127 (2127)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Historic county
- Carmarthenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanybydder
- National Grid reference
- SN52394342
- Latitude
- 52.06939
- Longitude
- -4.15503
- Altitude
- 190 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1968); Other (1983); Other (1994); Other (2007-2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD101(CAM)
- HER
- Dyfed 741
- National record
- record SN 54 SW 3; monument 303873
- Wikidata
- Q31110208
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.