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Llangrannog
Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 1373 Trust : Dyfed Community : Llangrannog Unitary authority : Ceredigion NGR : SN31105391 Site Type (preferred type first) : Iron Age Promontory Fort
Summary : This fort is located on rocky inland promontory, at 90m above sea level, overlooking the sea. It is a good naturally defended site; to the southwest and northeast the land falls away almost vertically. To the northwest, down the nose of the promontory, the fall is more gentle, but still steep, while to the southeast the promontory is separated from a plateau of farmland by a natural saddle 70m wide and 8m deep. The face of this saddle on the promontory side is steep and rocky, and has the impression of being artificially fashioned into a defensive element, but this is not the case. The top of the promontory slopes down in a series of rocky steps from southeast to northwest, and is gorse and bracken covered, which hinders the identification of archaeological remains. Nevertheless, some 30m northwest of the rocky face of the saddle mentioned above, a bank c. 5m wide and 0.8m high with a ditch on its southeast side and counterscarp bank southeast of the ditch runs southwest -northeast across the promontory. These earthworks stop short of the steep slope on the northeast side, perhaps indicating the site of an entrance. Approximately 70m northwest of these earthworks a rocky bank runs across the promontory southwest -northeast. On first appearance this could be a defence against those trying to enter the fort from northwest, but it more likely that it is an entirely natural feature. Some of the steep slopes on the edge of the fort have been quarried for stone in the past, but this activity does not seem to have damaged the fort.
K Murphy 17 November 2005
Sources :
K. Murphy, R. Ramsey and M. Page , 2006 , A SURVEY OF DEFENDED ENCLOSURES IN CEREDIGION, 2006: GAZETTEER OF ORDNANCE SURVEY GRID SQUARE SN35
Murphy,K , 2004 , Assessment of Prehistoric Defended Enclosures 2004-5, Report No 2004-100 ,
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RAF , 1946 ,
Ray,K , 1988 , Craig Pentre ,
