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y Gaer Wen
Carmarthenshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2217
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2217 (2217)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Historic county
- Carmarthenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangeler
- National Grid reference
- SN39533636
- Latitude
- 52.00239
- Longitude
- -4.33918
- Altitude
- 175 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.09 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and spur
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1913); Other (1968-1977); Other (1977-2008); Other (2007-2008)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dyfed 2283
- National record
- record SN 33 NE; monument 303735
- Wikidata
- Q31110016
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 SN32, SN33 and SN34, DYFED ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST REPORT NO. 2007/27, PROJECT RECORD NO. 62767, Llandeilo: Dyfed Archaeological Trust.
- RCAHMWM 1917: Carmarthenshire Inventory, No. 467;
- Savory, H.N 1954, Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, 16, 61.