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Cwm Castell
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2304
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2304 (2304)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanarth
- National Grid reference
- SN46945544
- Latitude
- 52.17589
- Longitude
- -4.23989
- Altitude
- 189 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 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.37 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD148
- HER
- Dyfed 1847
- National record
- record SN 45 NE 1; monument 303834
- Wikidata
- Q31109202
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1962. List of hill-forts in Cardiganshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 19, 361.
- Murphy, K, Ramsey, R. and Page, M. 2006. A survey of defended enclosures in Ceredigion 2006: Gazetteer of Ordnance Survey Grid Squares SN45 and SN46, Project Report No. 2006/20, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.