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Llanstephan Castle
Carmarthenshire, Wales · Atlas WA2205
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2205 (2205)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Historic county
- Carmarthenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llansteffan
- National Grid reference
- SN35141014
- Latitude
- 51.76556
- Longitude
- -4.39054
- Altitude
- 65 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.45 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, inland promontory, and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- built-up land
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1971); Other (1994); Excavation (1971-1963); Other (2007-2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CM004(CAM)
- HER
- Dyfed 2198
- National record
- record SN 31 SE; monument 95725
- Wikidata
- Q31110320
Sources
References
- Guilbert, G. 1974. Llanstephan Castle: 1973 Interim Report, Carmarthen Ant, 10 (1974), 37-48.
- 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.
- Savory, H.N. 1954. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Carmarthenshire. Bull Board Celtic Stud, 16, 62.