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Caerau, Henllan
Ceredigion, Wales · Atlas WA2359
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2359 (2359)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llandyfriog
- National Grid reference
- SN3581840193
- Latitude
- 52.03573
- Longitude
- -4.39504
- Altitude
- 61 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (2006); Excavation (1939-1945)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD276
- HER
- Dyfed 2341
- National record
- record SN 34 SE; monument 303772
- Wikidata
- Q31109609
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1962. List of hill-forts in Cardiganshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 19, 364.
- Murphy, K, Ramsey, R. and Page, M. 2006. A survey of defended enclosures in Ceredigion 2006: Gazetteer of Ordnance Survey Grid Squares SN32, SN33 and SN34, Project Report No. 2006/20, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.