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Castell Rhyfel
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2339
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2339 (2339)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tregaron
- National Grid reference
- SN73205980
- Latitude
- 52.22174
- Longitude
- -3.85772
- Altitude
- 500 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
- Footprint
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, palisade, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- chevaux de frise
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- Other (2006); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888-1891)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD066
- HER
- Dyfed 2031
- National record
- record SN 75 NW; monument 303624
- Wikidata
- Q31109490
Sources
References
- Driver, T. 2005. The Hillforts of North Ceredigion: Architecture, Landscape Setting and Cultural Contexts, PhD thesis, The University of Wales, Lampeter, unpublished.
- 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.
- 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.