Location
- Atlas number
- WA2297 (2297)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanrhystyd Mefenydd
- National Grid reference
- SN55206955
- Latitude
- 52.30489
- Longitude
- -4.12523
- Altitude
- 140 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 4.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (2002); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD094
- HER
- Dyfed 1196
- National record
- record SN 56 NE; monument 300770
- Wikidata
- Q31109179
Sources
References
- Murphy, K, Ramsey, R. and Page, M. 2006. A survey of defended enclosures in Ceredigion 2006: Gazetteer of Ordnance Survey Grid Squares SN 56, SN 57, and SN 58, Project Report No. 2006/20, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.