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The Mount, Pen-y-Lan
Newport, Wales ยท Atlas WA1497
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1497 (1497)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Newport
- Historic county
- Monmouthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Michaelstone-y-fedw
- National Grid reference
- ST25858487
- Latitude
- 51.55777
- Longitude
- -3.07102
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.48 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1883); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MM133
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00005g
- National record
- record ST 28 SE 1; monument 307830
- Wikidata
- Q31055842
Sources
References
- Gerrard, C., Wiggins, H., and Evans, E. 2006. Prehistoric defended enclosures in Glamorgan with recommendations for fieldwork: Year 3 Report, GGAT Report No. 2006/089, Project No. GGAT78, Swansea: GGAT.
- Savory, H.N. 1950. List of Hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales. II Monmouthshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 235.
- Whittle, E. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales, Glamorgan and Gwent, London: HMSO, 46-7.