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Castell Grogwynion
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2337
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2337 (2337)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Trawsgoed
- National Grid reference
- SN72107249
- Latitude
- 52.33551
- Longitude
- -3.87863
- Altitude
- 289 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.72 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.3 ha, 0.72 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (North east); Outworks (North east); Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1834); Other (1888); Other (1926); Other (1974); Other (2002); Other (2006); Other (2011); Other (2012); Geophysical Survey (2012); Excavation (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD012
- HER
- Dyfed 2066
- National record
- record SN 77 SW; monument 303671
- Wikidata
- Q31109471
Sources
References
- 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.
- 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, 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 SN75, SN76, SN77 and SN78, Project Report No. 2006/20, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.
- Timberlake, S., Haylock, K., Driver, T., Barker, L., Andrews, P., Craddock, B., Gilmour A. and Mepham, L. 2014. The strange case of a mytserious lead anomaly: Castell Grogwynion hillfort, Ceredigion - Iron Age smelting, 18th century pottery, or post-medieval prospection? Archaeol Wales, 53, 27-36.