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Castell Bach, Cwm Tydi
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2307
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2307 (2307)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llandyssiliogogo
- National Grid reference
- SN36045809
- Latitude
- 52.19656
- Longitude
- -4.40043
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.12 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.3 ha, 1.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1988); Other (2006); Earthwork Survey (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD068
- HER
- Dyfed 1355
- National record
- record SN 35 NE; monument 93914
- Wikidata
- Q31109203
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1962. List of hill-forts in Cardiganshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 19, 364.
- 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, 87-8.