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Harding's Down, North Camp
Swansea, Wales ยท Atlas WA1500
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1500 (1500)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Swansea
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton
- National Grid reference
- SS43669083
- Latitude
- 51.59452
- Longitude
- -4.25852
- Altitude
- 121 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hollow Way (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879); Other (1962); Other (1986); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM060
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00027w
- National record
- record SS 49 SW; monument 301322
- Wikidata
- Q31055085
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. 1949. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 159.
- RCAHMW 1976. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Glamorgan, 1.2, Pre-Norman, Parts I-III, No. 646, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Whittle, E. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Glamorgan and Gwent, London: HMSO 32-3.