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Castell Goginan Fach
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2338
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2338 (2338)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Melindwr
- National Grid reference
- SN69508185
- Latitude
- 52.41900
- Longitude
- -3.92041
- Altitude
- 212 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory 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
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.88 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Outworks (North east); In-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (2006); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887-1888)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD056
- HER
- Dyfed 2026
- National record
- record SN 68 SE
- Wikidata
- Q31109485
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1962. List of hill-forts in Cardiganshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 19, 360.
- 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.