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Castell-Careg-Wen
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2329
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2329 (2329)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanfihangel y Creuddyn Lower
- National Grid reference
- SN68837496
- Latitude
- 52.35693
- Longitude
- -3.92756
- Altitude
- 220 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.24 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1835); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dyfed 2005
- National record
- record SN 67 SE
- Wikidata
- Q31109102
Sources
References
- 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.