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Caer Argoed
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2322
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2322 (2322)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangwyryfon
- National Grid reference
- SN61627099
- Latitude
- 52.31949
- Longitude
- -4.03172
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.45 ha
- Footprint
- 1.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD051
- HER
- Dyfed 1996
- National record
- record SN 67 SW; monument 302037
- Wikidata
- Q31109307
Sources
References
- Hughes, I.T. 1926. A regional survey of the prehistoric earthworks of North Cardiganshire, Trans Cardiganshire Ant Soc, 4 (1926), 22-56.
- Murphy, K, Ramsey, R. and Page, M. 2006. A survey of defended enclosures in Ceredigion 2006: Gazetteer of Ordnance Survey Grid Square SN67, Project Report No. 2006/20, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.