Location
- Atlas number
- WA2298 (2298)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangrannog
- National Grid reference
- SN31555485
- Latitude
- 52.16611
- Longitude
- -4.46445
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.4 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Interior excavation
- postholes, roundhouses, rectangular structures, and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1988); Other (2006); Excavation (1990-1991)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD071
- HER
- Dyfed 1363
- National record
- record SN 35 SW; monument 92284
- Wikidata
- Q31109186
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1962. List of hill-forts in Cardiganshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 19, 358.
- Murphy, K, Ramsey, R. and Page, M. 2006. A survey of defended enclosures in Ceredigion 2006: Gazetteer of Ordnance Survey Grid Square SN35, Project Report No. 2006/20, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.
- Rees, S. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Dyfed, London: HMSO, 87.
- Scott, N. 1992. Excavations at Pendinas Lochtyn, Llangrannog, Dyfed 1990-91, Arch in Wales, 32 (1992), 9-10.