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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Castell NadoligCountry: Wales
NOTE: This site is 1.947 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Ceredigion Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Cardigan
Map Ref: SN29855040
Latitude: 52.125648N Longitude: 4.486993W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Hillfort in Ceredigion
Castell Nadolig, or ‘Castle Christmas’, is a prominent feature when driving on the A487 just north of the town of Cardigan.
The hillfort is described on Coflein as 'an oval concentric enclosure, measuring about 220m by 170m overall, the inner circuit being about 120m by 70m, both defined by banks and ditches some standing to 2-3m high'.
Significant finds include a pair of bronze ‘spoons’ unearthed in the 1820s, and 3 urns containing cremated remains unearthed next to the hillfort around 1859. Copies of the spoons can be seen in the Ceredigion Museum in Aberystwyth, the originals being in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
(Source: Coflein: https://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/304136 )
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