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Pen y Gaer Fawr, Penlan
Carmarthenshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2241
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2241 (2241)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Historic county
- Carmarthenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangynin
- National Grid reference
- SN26002083
- Latitude
- 51.85882
- Longitude
- -4.52823
- Altitude
- 140 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.64 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1912); Other (1967-1975); Other (1984-2008); Other (2007-2008)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dyfed 3963
- National record
- record SN 22 SE; monument 103935
- Wikidata
- Q31110073
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 SN22, SN23 and SN24, 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, 491, London: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1954. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Carmarthenshire. Bull Board Celtic Stud, 16, 66.