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Harding's Down, East Camp
Swansea, Wales ยท Atlas WA1501
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1501 (1501)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Swansea
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton
- National Grid reference
- SS43709064
- Latitude
- 51.59282
- Longitude
- -4.25786
- Altitude
- 152 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879); Other (1962); Other (1986); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM060
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00028w
- National record
- record SS 49 SW 31; monument 301321
- Wikidata
- Q31055103
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.
- RCAHMW 1976. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Glamorgan, 1.2, Pre-Norman, Parts I-III, No. 646, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales. Bull Board Celtic Stud,13, 158.
- Whittle, E. 1992: A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Glamorgan and Gwent, London: HMSO, 32-3.