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Cribyn Clotas
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2348
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2348 (2348)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanfihangel Ystrad
- National Grid reference
- SN53625146
- Latitude
- 52.14195
- Longitude
- -4.14055
- Altitude
- 255 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.88 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1988); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD081
- HER
- Dyfed 3988
- National record
- record SN 55 SW; monument 303885
- Wikidata
- Q31109540
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1962. List of hill-forts in Cardiganshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 19, 359.
- Murphy, K, Ramsey, R. and Page, M. 2006. A survey of defended enclosures in Ceredigion 2006: Gazetteer of Ordnance Survey Grid Squares SN54 and SN55, Project Report No. 2006/20, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.