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Cnwc y Bugail
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2326
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2326 (2326)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Trawsgoed
- National Grid reference
- SN68747400
- Latitude
- 52.34828
- Longitude
- -3.92850
- Altitude
- 214 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.42 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (West); Outworks (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Earthwork Survey (2003); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD125
- HER
- Dyfed 2003
- National record
- record SN 67 SE; monument 302038
- Wikidata
- Q31109344
Sources
References
- Driver, T. 2004. Cnwc y Bugail, Coed Ty'n-y-cwm, Trawsgoed, Ceredigion. A new sketch survey of a complex small hillfort in north Ceredigion. RCAHMW unpublished report, Aberystwyth: RCAHMW.
- Driver, T. 2013. Architecture, Regional Identity and Power in the Iron Age landscapes of Mid Wales: The hillforts of north Ceredigion, BAR 583, Archaeopress.
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1962. List of hill-forts in Cardiganshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 19, 360.
- 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, London: HMSO, 90.