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Caer Allt-Goch

Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2331

Location

Atlas number
WA2331 (2331)
Country
Wales
Current county or unitary authority
Ceredigion
Historic county
Cardiganshire
Parish, community, or townland
Geneu'r Glyn
National Grid reference
SN64118837
Latitude
52.47627
Longitude
-4.00228
Altitude
110 m

Form and condition

Type
contour fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
univallate
Complete rampart circuit
Yes
Number of ramparts
1
Number of ditches
0
Possible original entrances
1
Breaks through the ramparts
1
Enclosed area
0.6 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (North)

Landscape

Topographic position
hilltop
Aspect
southeast
Land use
pasture and scrub or bracken

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Interior surface
other roundhouse evidence
Investigations
1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (2006)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
CD169
HER
Dyfed 2009
National record
record SN 68 NW 4; monument 303588
Wikidata
Q31109415

Sources

References

  1. Hogg, A.H.A. 1962. List of hill-forts in Cardiganshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 19, 359.
  2. Hughes, I.T. 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 Squares SN68 and SN69, Project Report No. 2006/20, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.