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Castell Allt-Goch
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2366
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2366 (2366)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lampeter Rural
- National Grid reference
- SN59335011
- Latitude
- 52.13130
- Longitude
- -4.05661
- Altitude
- 242 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.7 ha, 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (1988); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD106
- HER
- Dyfed 4799
- National record
- record SN 55 SE 3; monument 303882
- Wikidata
- Q31109627
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1962. List of hill-forts in Cardiganshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 19, 362.
- 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.
- Rees, S. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Dyfed, London: HMSO, 84-5.