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Caer Llifry
Ceredigion, Wales ยท Atlas WA2377
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2377 (2377)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanfihangel Ystrad
- National Grid reference
- SN51605651
- Latitude
- 52.18678
- Longitude
- -4.17226
- Altitude
- 220 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- CD272
- HER
- Dyfed 5885
- National record
- record SN 55 NW; monument 303878
- Wikidata
- Q31109651
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.