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Gaer Fawr, Llanilar
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2323
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2323 (2323)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanilar
- National Grid reference
- SN64887188
- Latitude
- 52.32830
- Longitude
- -3.98428
- Altitude
- 280 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.75 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, rubble, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South); Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metalworking
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD050
- HER
- Dyfed 1997
- National record
- record SN 67 SW; monument 303579
- Wikidata
- Q31109318
Sources
References
- Davies, J.L. and Hogg, A.H.A. 1994. The Iron Age, in eds Davies, J.L and Kirby, D.P. From the earliest times to the coming of the Normans, Cardiganshire County History, Vol 1, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 220-74.
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1962. List of hill-forts in Cardiganshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 19, 363.
- 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.
- Rees, S, 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Dyfed, 214, London: HMSO, 214.