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Castell Perthi-Mawr
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2362
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2362 (2362)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cilcennin
- National Grid reference
- SN52835897
- Latitude
- 52.20921
- Longitude
- -4.15535
- Altitude
- 271 m
Form and condition
- Type
- multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.8 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.65 ha, 1.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (North west); Hollow Way (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures, curvilinear platforms, and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- Other (1999); Other (2006); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD062
- HER
- Dyfed 4780
- National record
- record SN 55 NW 6; monument 300148
- Wikidata
- Q31109618
Sources
References
- 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.