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<< Our Photo Pages >> Cefn Pâl North Defended Enclosure - Hillfort in Wales in Carmarthenshire

Submitted by geoffstickland on Thursday, 11 June 2020  Page Views: 479

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Cefn Pâl North Defended Enclosure
Country: Wales County: Carmarthenshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Llandovery  Nearest Village: Cynghordy
Map Ref: SN80433840
Latitude: 52.031079N  Longitude: 3.744352W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5

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Cefn Pâl North Defended Enclosure
Cefn Pâl North Defended Enclosure submitted by geoffstickland : Viewed from above, approximately from the east (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillfort in Carmarthenshire

An Iron Age Defended Enclosure with banks and ditches and about 80' across. The layout is hard to decipher owing to the abundant hay crop flourishing at the time of photographing.

Coflein site no. 304647
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SN8038 : Llwybr Cefn-pâl / Cefn-pâl path by Alan Richards
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SN8038 : Cefn-pâl Farm by Alan Hughes
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SN8038 : Lloc Cefn Pâl / Cefn Pâl enclosure by Alan Richards
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SN8038 : Lane heading to A483 by Shaun Ferguson
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SN8038 : Carmarthenshire countryside by Alan Hughes
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