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Castell Tregaron
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2355
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2355 (2355)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tregaron
- National Grid reference
- SN68706020
- Latitude
- 52.22428
- Longitude
- -3.92371
- Altitude
- 230 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.72 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall, rubble, timber, and berm
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (East); Oblique (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD108
- HER
- Dyfed 5168
- National record
- record SN 66 SE; monument 303561
- Wikidata
- Q31109593
Sources
References
- Driver, T. (2005). The Hillforts of North Ceredigion: Architecture, Landscape Setting and Cultural Contexts, Unpublished PhD thesis, The University of Wales, Lampeter.
- 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, 363.
- Murphy, K, Ramsey, R. and Page, M. 2006. A survey of defended enclosures in Ceredigion 2006: Gazetteer of Ordnance Survey Grid Squares SN64, SN65 and SN66, 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.