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Castell Bach, Llanrhystyd
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2279
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2279 (2279)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanrhystyd Haminiog
- National Grid reference
- SN53886887
- Latitude
- 52.29843
- Longitude
- -4.14428
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (East); Oblique (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dyfed 756
- National record
- record SN 56 NW 1; monument 300768
- Wikidata
- Q31109031
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1962. List of hill-forts in Cardiganshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 19, 361.
- Murphy, K, Ramsey, R. and Page, M. 2006. A survey of defended enclosures in Ceredigion 2006: Gazetteer of Ordnance Survey Grid Squares SN56, SN57, and SN58, Project Report No. 2006/20, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.