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Gaer Wen, Pen-y-Graig
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2288
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2288 (2288)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llandysul
- National Grid reference
- SN39634707
- Latitude
- 52.09863
- Longitude
- -4.34275
- Altitude
- 240 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (2006); Other (2008); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888-1889)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dyfed 7317
- National record
- record SN 34 NE; monument 416584
- Wikidata
- Q31109039
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1962. List of hill-forts in Cardiganshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 19, 359.
- Murphy, K, Ramsey, R. and Page, M. 2006. A survey of defended enclosures in Ceredigion 2006: Gazetteer of Ordnance Survey Grid Squares SN33 and SN34, Project Report No. 2006/20, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.