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Maes y Castell
Carmarthenshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2132
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2132 (2132)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Historic county
- Carmarthenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Manordeilo and Salem
- National Grid reference
- SN63132794
- Latitude
- 51.93305
- Longitude
- -3.99225
- Altitude
- 250 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.37 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Over-lapping (South west); In-turned (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Other (1968); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887-1888); Other (1986-1998); Other (2007-2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CM149(CAM)
- HER
- Dyfed 834
- National record
- record SN 62 NW 1; monument 304025
- Wikidata
- Q31110233
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.