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Castell Nadolig
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2342
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2342 (2342)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Penbryn
- National Grid reference
- SN29855040
- Latitude
- 52.12562
- Longitude
- -4.48706
- Altitude
- 212 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 3.28 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
- Water source
- pool
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1695); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD053
- HER
- Dyfed 2101
- National record
- record SN 25 SE 4; monument 304136
- Wikidata
- Q31109515
Sources
References
- Barnwell, E.L. 1862, Bronze articles supposed to be spoons, Arch Camb, 3rd series, 8, 208-219.
- 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.
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1962. List of hill-forts in Cardiganshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 19, 364.
- Murphy, K., Savory, H. N., Caseldine, A. E., Dresser, Q., Williams, G., Wilkinson, J. L. and Crowther, J. 1992. Plas Gogerddan, Dyfed: a multi-period burial and ritual site. Arch J ,149, 1-38.
- Murphy, K, Ramsey, R. and Page, M. 2006. A survey of defended enclosures in Ceredigion 2006: Gazetteer of Ordnance Survey Grid Squares SNX, 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.
- Way, A. 1870. Notices of certain bronze relics, of a peculiar type, assigned to the late Celitc period, Arch Camb, 4th series, I, 199-234.