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Pen Coed-Foel Camp
Ceredigion, Wales · Atlas WA2302
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2302 (2302)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llandyssul
- National Grid reference
- SN42474277
- Latitude
- 52.06081
- Longitude
- -4.29934
- Altitude
- 252 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- 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
- 1.48 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metal and animal bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD017
- HER
- Dyfed 1822
- National record
- record SN 44 SW; monument 92243
- Wikidata
- Q31109196
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1962. List of hill-forts in Cardiganshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 19, 358.
- Hughes, I.T. 1930. Some south Cardiganshire earthworks, Trans Cardiganshire Ant Soc, 7(1930), 112-17.
- Murphy, K, Ramsey, R. and Page, M. 2006. A survey of defended enclosures in Ceredigion 2006: Gazetteer of Ordnance Survey Grid Square SN44, Project Report No. 2006/20, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeolo