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Woodreefe Castle
Carmarthenshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2230
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2230 (2230)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Historic county
- Carmarthenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Eglwyscummin
- National Grid reference
- SN18420853
- Latitude
- 51.74593
- Longitude
- -4.63173
- Altitude
- 75 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1967-1975); Other (1991-2003); Other (2007-2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CM253(CAM)
- HER
- Dyfed 3666
- National record
- record SN 10 NE 12; monument 304231
- Wikidata
- Q31110365
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 SN01, SN02, SN10, SN11 and SN12, 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. (No. 620)
- Savory, H.N. 1954. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Carmarthenshire. Bull Board Celtic Stud, 16, 63.