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Tre-Coll
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2356
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2356 (2356)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangeitho
- National Grid reference
- SN64106220
- Latitude
- 52.24113
- Longitude
- -3.99182
- Altitude
- 170 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Over-lapping (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1971); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD163
- HER
- Dyfed 5164
- National record
- record SN 66 SW; monument 303565
- Wikidata
- Q31109602
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- Driver, T. (2005) The Hillforts of North Ceredigion: Architecture, Landscape Setting and Cultural Contexts, Unpublished PhD thesis, The University of Wales, Lampeter.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.
- 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.