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Glan-y-Mor Fort, Laugharne
Carmarthenshire, Wales · Atlas WA2229
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2229 (2229)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Historic county
- Carmarthenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Laugharne Township
- National Grid reference
- SN 3063 1117
- Latitude
- 51.77347
- Longitude
- -4.45633
- Altitude
- 61 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- parkland and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- Excavation (1907); Other (1912); Other (1967); Geophysical Survey (1991); Other (1985-1996); Other (1994-2003); Other (2007-2008); Excavation (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CM232(CAM)
- HER
- Dyfed 2158
- National record
- record SN 31 SW 7; monument 304152
- Wikidata
- Q31110356
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, 175, London: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1954. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Carmarthenshire. Bull Board Celtic Stud, 16, 62.