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Borough Head
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA4090
Location
- Atlas number
- WA4090 (4090)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Talbenny
- National Grid reference
- SM 8375 1269
- Latitude
- 51.77096
- Longitude
- -5.13551
- Altitude
- 85 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (2013); 1st Identified Written Reference (2014)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dyfed
- National record
- monument 419586
- Wikidata
- Q31108782
Sources
References
- RCHAMW, 2014. Borough Head coastal promontory fort. Archaeol Wales, 53, 168.