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Coygan Camp
Carmarthenshire, Wales · Atlas WA2253
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2253 (2253)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Historic county
- Carmarthenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Laugharne Township
- National Grid reference
- SN28420914
- Latitude
- 51.75456
- Longitude
- -4.48733
- Altitude
- 83 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.68 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- southwest
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50, AD 50–400, and AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Other (1915); Other (1967); Excavation (1963-1965)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dyfed 7451
- National record
- record SN 20 NE 7; monument 107373
- Wikidata
- Q31110107
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 SN20 and SN21, 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, 556, London: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1954. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Carmarthenshire. Bull Board Celtic Stud, 16, 60.
- Wainwright, G. C. 1967: Coygan Camp. A prehistoric Romano-British and Dark Age settlement in Carmarthenshire, Cardiff: Cambrian Archaeological Association.