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y Gardden, Ruabon
Wrexham, Wales ยท Atlas WA1161
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1161 (1161)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Historic county
- Denbighshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ruabon
- National Grid reference
- SJ29684482
- Latitude
- 52.99605
- Longitude
- -3.04920
- Altitude
- 178 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 3, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1874); Excavation (1930-1939)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- DE129
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 101198
- National record
- record SJ 24 SE 4; monument 307058
- Wikidata
- Q31119250
Sources
References
- Brown, I. 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales, Oxford: Windgather Press/Oxbow Books.
- Gardner, W. 1937. Y Gardden hill-fort, Ruabon, Denbighshire, Arch Camb, 92, 151-58.
- Davies, Canon Ellis 1929. The prehistoric and Roman remains of Denbighshire, Cardiff: William Lewis.