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Pen-y-Darren
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2335
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2335 (2335)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Trefeurig
- National Grid reference
- SN67898301
- Latitude
- 52.42903
- Longitude
- -3.94453
- Altitude
- 290 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.45 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and quarry hollows
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887); Excavation (1996); Other (2005); Excavation (2005); Other (2006); Other (1980-1989)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD028
- HER
- Dyfed 2023
- National record
- record SN 68 SE; monument 303592
- Wikidata
- Q31109459
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1962. List of hill-forts in Cardiganshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 19, 363.
- 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.
- Davies, J. L. and Hogg, A. H. A. 1994. The Iron Age, in eds Davies, J.L. and Kirby, D.A.. Cardiganshire County History, Vol 1, From the earliest times to the coming of the Normans, Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Davies, J.L. and Lynch, F. 2000. The Late Bronze and Iron Age, in Lynch, F., Aldhouse-Green, S. and Davies, J.L. Prehistoric Wales, Sutton Publishing, 139-219.
- Timberlake, S and Driver, T G. 2005. Excavation at Darren Camp and Darren mine (Opencuts), Banc-y-Darren, Trefeurig, Ceredigion, Arch Wales, 45, 98-102.
- Driver, T. 2013. Architecture, Regional Identity and Power in the Iron Age Landscapes of Mid Wales : The Hillforts of North Ceredigion. Oxford, Archaeopress: British Archaeological Report 583.
- Thornburn, J. 1987 Pen y daren, Trefeirig (SN 679 830). Arch in Wales 27, 34.