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Foel y Mwnt
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2289
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2289 (2289)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Y Verwig
- National Grid reference
- SN19305205
- Latitude
- 52.13709
- Longitude
- -4.64188
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 6.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dyfed 1041
- National record
- record SN 15 SE; monument 403286
- Wikidata
- Q31109045
Sources
References
- Murphy, K, Ramsey, R. and Page, M. 2006. A survey of defended enclosures in Ceredigion 2006: Gazetteer of Ordnance Survey Grid Squares SN14 and SN15, Project Report No. 2006/20, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.