LiDAR 1m DTM Hillshade
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LiDAR 1m DTM Hillshade
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HER: Dyfed 3106 (None)
NMR: SM 81 NE (305332)
SM: PE216(PEM)
NGR: SM 8984 1958
X: 189840 Y: 219580 (OSGB36)
Large, complex, bivallate, partial contour hillfort, with concentric annexe and additional small enclosure on S side, located on E-facing slope just off summit of rounded hill at the headwaters of Knock Brook, a tributary of the Western Cleddau. Moderate surrounding slopes to N, but steeper on E, S and W, especially on SE. The total site measures c. 270m across external, with internal area c. 5.25ha. An inner enclosure with two widely-spaced ramparts, possibly original enclosure of c. 58m internal diameter. SE half of this now missing, leaving a visible semi-circular area c. 58m by 45m, now undefended on the downslope SE side. However traces of the former ramparts here can be made out on aerial photographs. Inner bank is to 1.7m high with outside ditch, the outer being c. 15m distant, also to c. 1.7m high. To 60m - 100m from the inner banks rampart forms a concentric annexe, also discontinuous on SE. Earthworks of roughly oval enclosure, c. 63m N-S by 46m, lie to SE, and aerial photographs indicate that missing section of the annexe rampart survives as low earthwork curving in to NE around this oval enclosure. No entrances visible and possibly were located where sections missing. Under improved pasture now, but once ploughed. On 1st Ed. OS map (1889). Minimal investigations, undated.
Citizen Science: ✗
Reliability of Data: Confirmed
Reliability of Interpretation: Confirmed
X: -562369 Y: 6770373 (EPSG: 3857)
Longitude: -5.05184320097502 Latitude: 51.8351470768955 (EPSG:4326)
Country: Wales
Current County or Unitary Authority: Pembrokeshire
Historic County: Pembrokeshire
Current Parish/Community/Council/Townland: Camrose
SE sections not visible on ground.
| Extant | ✓ |
| Cropmark | ✓ |
| Likely Destroyed | ✗ |
Under improved pasture now, but once ploughed. Some scrub on banks.
| Woodland | ✗ |
| Commercial Forestry Plantation | ✗ |
| Parkland | ✗ |
| Pasture (Grazing) | ✓ |
| Arable | ✗ |
| Scrub/Bracken | ✓ |
| Bare Outcrop | ✗ |
| Heather/Moorland | ✗ |
| Heath | ✗ |
| Built-up | ✗ |
| Coastal Grassland | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
Large, complex, bivallate, partial contour hillfort ,with concentric annexe and additional small enclosure on S side, located on E-facing slope just off summit of rounded hill at the headwaters of Knock Brook, a tributary of the Western Cleddau. Moderate surrounding slopes to N, but steeper on E, S and W, especially on SE.
| Contour Fort | ✗ |
| Partial Contour Fort | ✓ |
| Promontory Fort | ✗ |
| Hillslope Fort | ✗ |
| Level Terrain Fort | ✗ |
| Marsh Fort | ✗ |
| Multiple Enclosure Fort | ✗ |
| Hilltop | ✓ |
| Coastal Promontory | ✗ |
| Inland Promontory | ✗ |
| Valley Bottom | ✗ |
| Knoll/Hillock/Outcrop | ✗ |
| Ridge | ✗ |
| Cliff/Plateau-edge/Scarp | ✗ |
| Hillslope | ✓ |
| Lowland | ✗ |
| Spur | ✗ |
Dominant Topographic Feature: Low hill.
| North | ✗ |
| Northeast | ✗ |
| East | ✗ |
| Southeast | ✓ |
| South | ✗ |
| Southwest | ✗ |
| West | ✗ |
| Northwest | ✗ |
| Level | ✗ |
Altitude: 100.0m
N/A
None
Reliability: D - None
| Pre 1200BC | ✗ |
| 1200BC - 800BC | ✗ |
| 800BC - 400BC | ✗ |
| 400BC - AD50 | ✗ |
| AD50 - AD400 | ✗ |
| AD400 - AD 800 | ✗ |
| Post AD800 | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✓ |
| Pre Hillfort: | None |
| Post Hillfort: | None |
On 1st Ed. OS map (1889). Field Observation OS 1973, 1975. Field Observation AMB 1981. Field Observation CADW 1985, 1990, 1998. Cambria Archaeology defended enclosures survey 2006-2007.
| 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889): | OS map. |
| Other (1981): | Field observation AMB. |
| Other (None): | Field observation OS. |
| Other (None): | Field opbservation CADW. |
| Other (None): | Cambria Archaeology defended enclosures survey. |
None
Stream 0.25km outside fort.
| None | ✓ |
| Spring | ✗ |
| Stream | ✗ |
| Pool | ✗ |
| Flush | ✗ |
| Well | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| No Known Features | ✓ |
| Round Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Rectangular Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Curvilinear Platforms | ✗ |
| Other Roundhouse Evidence | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
None
| No Known Geophysics | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
None
| No Known Finds | ✓ |
| Pottery | ✗ |
| Metal | ✗ |
| Metalworking | ✗ |
| Human Bones | ✗ |
| Animal Bones | ✗ |
| Lithics | ✗ |
| Environmental | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| APs Not Checked | ✓ |
| None | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
No entrances visible and possibly were located where sections missing on SE, but no evidence for this.
| 0: | None |
| 2: | None |
Guard Chambers: ✗
Chevaux de Frise: ✗
An inner enclosure with two widely-spaced ramparts, possibly original enclosure of c. 58m internal diameter. SE half of this now missing, leaving a visible semi-circular area c. 58m by 45m, now undefended on the downslope SE side. However, traces of the former ramparts here can be made out on aerial photographs. Inner bank is to 1.7m high with outside ditch, the outer being c. 15m distant, also to c. 1.7m high.
| Area 1: | 5.25ha. |
| Total: | 5.25ha. |
Total Footprint Area: Noneha.
None
| ✗ | None |
| ✓ | None |
| NE Quadrant: | 2 |
| SE Quadrant: | 2 |
| SW Quadrant: | 2 |
| NW Quadrant: | 2 |
| Total: | 2 |
| Partial Univallate | ✗ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✓ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✗ |
| Partial Univallate | ✗ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
None
| None | ✗ |
| Earthen Bank | ✓ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Rubble | ✗ |
| Wall-walk | ✗ |
| Evidence of Timber | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| None | ✗ |
| Earthen Bank | ✗ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Murus Duplex | ✗ |
| Timber-framed | ✗ |
| Timber-laced | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Other | ✗ |
| ✗ | None |
| ✓ | None |
Number of Ditches: 2
| ✓ | To 60m - 100m from the inner banks rampart forms a concentric annexe, also discontinuous on SE. Earthworks of roughly oval enclosure, c. 63m N-S by 46m, lie to SE, and aerial photographs indicate that missing section of the annexe rampart survives as low earthwork curving in to NE around this oval enclosure. |
Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 190.
Murphy, K., Ramsey, R., Poucher, P. and Page, M. 2007. A Survey of Defended Enclosures in Pembrokeshire, 2006-2007: Gazetteer of Ordnance Survey Grid Squares SM71, SM81 and SM91, Cambria Archaeology Report No. 2007/01, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.
RCAMWM 1925. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VII, County of Pembroke, London: HMSO, No. 108.
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