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Gaer Lwyd
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2301
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2301 (2301)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Penbryn
- National Grid reference
- SN30145240
- Latitude
- 52.14367
- Longitude
- -4.48382
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dyfed 1375
- National record
- record SN 35 SW; monument 303789
- Wikidata
- Q31109062
Sources
References
- 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.