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Burry Holmes
Swansea, Wales · Atlas WA1498
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1498 (1498)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Swansea
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton
- National Grid reference
- SS39889258
- Latitude
- 51.60918
- Longitude
- -4.31385
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- built-up land and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879); Excavation (1924); Excavation (1965); Other (1965); Other (2005); Excavation (2000-2001)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM088
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00022w
- National record
- record SS 39 SE; monument 301302
- Wikidata
- Q31055033
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.
- Hague, D.B. 1966. Burry Holmes excavation 1965-6, Gower, 17, 34-41.
- Hughes, W. 1999. Prehistoric sites of the Gower and West Glamorgan, 103, Little Logaston: Logaston Press, 103.
- RCAHMW 1976. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Glamorgan, Vol I: Pre-Norman, Part II The Iron Age and the Roman occupation, No. 612, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hillforts and other earthworks in Wales, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 157.
- Walker, E.A. 2001. Burry Holmes, Gower, Swamsea (SS4001 9247), Morgannwg, 45, 81.
- Whittle, E 1992: A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Glamorgan and Gwent, London: HMSO, 49-50.