Home / Wales / Ceredigion / Cefn Blewog Camp

Cefn Blewog Camp

Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2324

Location

Atlas number
WA2324 (2324)
Country
Wales
Current county or unitary authority
Ceredigion
Historic county
Cardiganshire
Parish, community, or townland
Trawsgoed
National Grid reference
SN69707246
Latitude
52.33468
Longitude
-3.91382
Altitude
310 m

Form and condition

Type
partial contour fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
partial univallate and partial bivallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
2
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
Number of ditches
0
Possible original entrances
1
Breaks through the ramparts
1
Enclosed area
1.26 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank and unfinished work
Also recorded
guard chambers
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (West)

Landscape

Topographic position
ridge
Aspect
west
Land use
woodland

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (2006)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
CD011
HER
Dyfed 2000
National record
record SN 67 SE; monument 303576
Wikidata
Q31109330

Sources

References

  1. Hogg, A.H.A. 1962. List of hill-forts in Cardiganshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 19, 364.
  2. Hughes, I.T. 1926. A regional survey of the prehistoric earthworks of North Cardiganshire, Trans Cardiganshire Ant Soc, 4 (1926), 22-56.
  3. 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.