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Pen-y-Gaer, Meidrim
Carmarthenshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2199
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2199 (2199)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Historic county
- Carmarthenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Meidrim
- National Grid reference
- SN30751928
- Latitude
- 51.84636
- Longitude
- -4.45856
- Altitude
- 118 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Footprint
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1997); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888-1889); Other (1984-1996); Other (1994-2003); Other (2007-2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CM148(CAM)
- HER
- Dyfed 2134
- National record
- record SN 31 NW; monument 304141
- Wikidata
- Q31110303
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 SN31, 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, 623i, London: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1954. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Carmarthenshire. Bull Board Celtic Stud, 16, 64.