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Gaer Pwntan
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2370
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2370 (2370)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Penbryn
- National Grid reference
- SN29214935
- Latitude
- 52.11599
- Longitude
- -4.49587
- Altitude
- 223 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Footprint
- 2.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (2006); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dyfed 5221
- National record
- record SN 24 NE; monument 304123
- Wikidata
- Q31109339
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 SN24, Project Report No. 2006/20, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.