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Parc Cynog Farm
Carmarthenshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2204
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2204 (2204)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Historic county
- Carmarthenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanddowror
- National Grid reference
- SN25450981
- Latitude
- 51.75966
- Longitude
- -4.53065
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1912); Excavation (1967-1968); Other (1967-1975); Other (1985-2001); Other (2007-2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CM138(CAM)
- HER
- Dyfed 3843
- National record
- record SN 20 NE; monument 304161
- Wikidata
- Q31110309
Sources
References
- de Quincey, A.B. 1969. A promontory fort at Parc Cynog, Carmarthenshire, Arch Camb, 118 (1969), 73 ff.
- 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 SN20 and SN21, 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, 165, London: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1954. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Carmarthenshire. Bull Board Celtic Stud, 16, 64.