Home / Wales / Carmarthenshire / Gelli Diogyn
Gelli Diogyn
Carmarthenshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2142
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2142 (2142)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Historic county
- Carmarthenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanboidy
- National Grid reference
- SN19842146
- Latitude
- 51.86252
- Longitude
- -4.61791
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 1, SW 1, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hollow Way (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1967); Other (1996); Other (1998); Other (2007-2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CM293(CAM)
- HER
- Dyfed 935
- National record
- record SN 12 SE; monument 100914
- Wikidata
- Q31110279
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 SNX, 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, 64.