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Tan-y-Ffordd
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2368
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2368 (2368)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Melindwr
- National Grid reference
- SN69257981
- Latitude
- 52.40061
- Longitude
- -3.92329
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.11 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (West); In-turned (West); Other Forms (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD164
- HER
- Dyfed 5173
- National record
- record SN 67 NE; monument 303570
- Wikidata
- Q31109630
Sources
References
- Murphy, K, Ramsey, R. and Page, M. 2006. A survey of defended enclosures in Ceredigion 2006: Gazetteer of Ordnance Survey Grid Squares SN67, Project Report No. 2006/20, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.