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Careg Llwyd
Carmarthenshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2147
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2147 (2147)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Historic county
- Carmarthenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cefn Sidan
- National Grid reference
- SN42130209
- Latitude
- 51.69526
- Longitude
- -4.28568
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory, knoll or outcrop, and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland, commercial forestry, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- environmental material
- Investigations
- Excavation (1981); Other (2007); Other (2007-2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CM222(CAM)
- HER
- Dyfed 1645
- National record
- record SN 40 SW; monument 303920
- Wikidata
- Q31110284
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 SN40, SN41, SN42, SN43 and SN44, DYFED ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST REPORT NO. 2007/27, PROJECT RECORD NO. 62767, Llandeilo: Dyfed Archaeological Trust.
- Williams, G. 1981. Survey and excavation on Pembrey Mountain, Carmarthen Ant, 17, 3-32.