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Craig Gwrtheyrn
Carmarthenshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2192
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2192 (2192)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Historic county
- Carmarthenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanfihangel-ar-Arth
- National Grid reference
- SN43324027
- Latitude
- 52.03860
- Longitude
- -4.28580
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 3, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- chevaux de frise and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hornwork (South west); In-turned (South west); Passage-way/Corridor (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1968); Other (1983); Other (2001); Other (2007-2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CM023(CAM)
- HER
- Dyfed 1823
- National record
- record SN 44 SW; monument 101802
- Wikidata
- Q31110289
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.
- Rees, S. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Dyfed, London: HMSO, 214.
- 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, 393, London: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1954. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Carmarthenshire. Bull Board Celtic Stud, 16, 56.