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Walwyn's Castle
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA2942
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2942 (2942)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Walwyn's Castle
- National Grid reference
- SM 8726 1106
- Latitude
- 51.75768
- Longitude
- -5.08401
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1981); Other (2003); Other (2009); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1874-1875); Other (1965-1975); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE189(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 3151
- National record
- record SM 81 SE; monument 305342
- Wikidata
- Q31108873
Sources
References
- Murphy, K., Ramsey, R., Poucher, P. and Page, M. 2007. A SURVEY OF DEFENDED ENCLOSURES IN PEMBROKeSHIRE,
- 2006-07: GAZETTEER OF ORDNANCE SURVEY GRID SQUARE SN71, SN81 and SN91, Cambria Archaeology Report No. 2007/01, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.