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y Fan
Carmarthenshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2198
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2198 (2198)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Historic county
- Carmarthenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llansadwrn
- National Grid reference
- SN67513145
- Latitude
- 51.96565
- Longitude
- -3.92994
- Altitude
- 255 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1968); Other (1988); Other (1992-1998); Other (2007-2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CM170(CAM)
- HER
- Dyfed 1902
- National record
- record SN 63 SE 1; monument 303896
- Wikidata
- Q31110301
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 SN61, SN62, SN63 and SN64. 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, 60.