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Castell, Pencader
Carmarthenshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2191
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2191 (2191)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Historic county
- Carmarthenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanfihangel-ar-Arth
- National Grid reference
- SN44873634
- Latitude
- 52.00373
- Longitude
- -4.26144
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1968-1976); Other (1983-2007); Other (2007-2008)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dyfed 1784
- National record
- record SN 43 NW 19; monument 303808
- Wikidata
- Q31109979
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.
- 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, 396, London: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1954. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Carmarthenshire. Bull Board Celtic Stud, 16, 64.