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Hen Gaer, Bow Street
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2352
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2352 (2352)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tirymynach
- National Grid reference
- SN63308440
- Latitude
- 52.44040
- Longitude
- -4.01257
- Altitude
- 162 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Outworks (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Excavation (1967); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD026
- HER
- Dyfed 2015
- National record
- record SN 68 SW 1; monument 92249
- Wikidata
- Q31109571
Sources
References
- 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, 359.
- 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 SNX, Project Report No. 2006/20, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.