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Graig y Gwbert

Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2375

Location

Atlas number
WA2375 (2375)
Country
Wales
Current county or unitary authority
Ceredigion
Historic county
Cardiganshire
Parish, community, or townland
Y Verwig
National Grid reference
SN15905020
Latitude
52.11935
Longitude
-4.69050
Altitude
10 m

Form and condition

Type
promontory fort
Condition
Extant and Likely destroyed
Morphology
partial univallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
1
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
Number of ditches
1
Possible original entrances
1
Breaks through the ramparts
1
Enclosed area
1.5 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
Also recorded
ditches
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (East)

Landscape

Topographic position
coastal promontory
Aspect
level

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Interior surface
other roundhouse evidence
Investigations
Other (2006)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
CD274
HER
Dyfed 7735
National record
record SN 15 SE; monument 403294
Wikidata
Q31109639

Sources

References

  1. Murphy, K, Ramsey, R. and Page, M. 2006. A survey of defended enclosures in Ceredigion 2006: Gazetteer of Ordnance Survey Grid Squares SN14 and SN15, Project Report No. 2006/20, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.