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Waun-y-Castell
Carmarthenshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2131
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2131 (2131)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Historic county
- Carmarthenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dyffryn Cennen
- National Grid reference
- SN61961917
- Latitude
- 51.85396
- Longitude
- -4.00575
- Altitude
- 137 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and ridge
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1968); Other (2007-2008)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dyfed 799
- National record
- record SN 61 NW; monument 304016
- Wikidata
- Q31109884
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 SN61, SN62, SN63 and SN64, DYFED ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST REPORT NO. 2007/27, PROJECT RECORD NO. 62767, Llandeilo: Dyfed Archaeological Trust.
- Savory, H.N. 1954. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Carmarthenshire. Bull Board Celtic Stud, 16, 60.