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Caer Lletty-Llwyd
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2332
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2332 (2332)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ceulanymaesmawr
- National Grid reference
- SN65098822
- Latitude
- 52.47516
- Longitude
- -3.98779
- Altitude
- 99 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD101
- HER
- Dyfed 2013
- National record
- record SN 68 NE 5; monument 303580
- Wikidata
- Q31109444
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, 362.
- 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 Squares SN68 and SN69, Project Report No. 2006/20, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.