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Bryn Maen Caerau, Cellan
Ceredigion, Wales · Atlas WA4344
Location
- Atlas number
- WA4344 (4344)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Historic county
- Cardiganshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanfair Clydogau
- National Grid reference
- SN59704836
- Latitude
- 52.11568
- Longitude
- -4.05049
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- marsh fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1952); Other (1971); Excavation (1979); Other (1987); Excavation (1988); Other (1988); Other (2007); Other (1971-1977)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dyfed 786
- National record
- record SN 54 NE; monument 303862
- Wikidata
- Q31109437
Sources
References
- 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.
- Williams, G. 2001. Excavations at Bryn Maen Caerau, Cellan, Ceredigion, Archaeol in Wales, 41,10-20.