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Court Wood
Carmarthenshire, Wales · Atlas WA2254
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2254 (2254)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Historic county
- Carmarthenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Pembury and Burry Port Town
- National Grid reference
- SN42400210
- Latitude
- 51.69542
- Longitude
- -4.28178
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and spur
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes and rectangular structures
- Finds
- environmental material
- Investigations
- Excavation (1977); Other (1983-2007); Other (2007-2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CM221(CAM)
- HER
- Dyfed 7648
- National record
- record SN 40 SW; monument 275696
- Wikidata
- Q31110413
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 SN40, SN41, SN42, SN43 AND SN44, DYFED ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST REPORT NO. 2007/27, PROJECT RECORD NO. 62767, Llandeilo: Dyfed Archaeological Trust.