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y Gaer Fach, Carn Goch, Llangadog
Carmarthenshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2140
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2140 (2140)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Historic county
- Carmarthenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangadog
- National Grid reference
- SN68562426
- Latitude
- 51.90130
- Longitude
- -3.91192
- Altitude
- 210 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 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, knoll or outcrop, and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887); Other (1968); Other (1988); Other (1992-2002); Other (2007-2008); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CM037d(CAM)
- HER
- Dyfed 368
- National record
- record SN 62 SE; monument 100872
- Wikidata
- Q31110271
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A 1974. Carn Goch, Carmarthenshire, Arch Camb, 123, 46-48.
- 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.
- Rees, S. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Dyfed, 85-6, London: HMSO, 86.
- 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, 427, London: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1954. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Carmarthenshire. Bull Board Celtic Stud, 16, 56.