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Pen-y-Bannau
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2341
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2341 (2341)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ystrad Fflur
- National Grid reference
- SN74206692
- Latitude
- 52.28595
- Longitude
- -3.84574
- Altitude
- 351 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 1, SW 1, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.65 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (North); Outworks (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD109
- HER
- Dyfed 2040
- National record
- record SN 76 NW; monument 300704
- Wikidata
- Q31109506
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North Ceredigion: Architecture, Landscape Setting and Cultural Contexts, PhD thesis, The University of Wales, Lampeter, unpublished.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.
- 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 SN75, SN76, SN77 and SN78, Project Report No. 2006/20, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.
- Rees, S. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Dyfed, London: HMSO, 214.