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Mandinam
Carmarthenshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2272
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2272 (2272)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Historic county
- Carmarthenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangadog
- National Grid reference
- SN73822808
- Latitude
- 51.93684
- Longitude
- -3.83690
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour 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 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Other (2002); Other (2005); Other (2007-2008)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dyfed 52102
- National record
- record SN 72 NW; monument 307333
- Wikidata
- Q31110161
Sources
References
- Driver, T. 2002. Mandinam Hillfort, Arch in Wales, 42 (2002), 96-7.
- 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 SN72, SN73, SN74, SN83 and SN84, DYFED ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST REPORT NO. 2007/27, PROJECT RECORD NO. 62767, Llandeilo: Dyfed Archaeological Trust.