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The Bulwark, Llanmadoc Hill
Swansea, Wales ยท Atlas WA1503
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1503 (1503)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Swansea
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton
- National Grid reference
- SS44309275
- Latitude
- 51.61195
- Longitude
- -4.25014
- Altitude
- 159 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 3, SW 4, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.12 ha, 0.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Outworks (East); Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879); Excavation (1957); Other (1962); Other (1986); Other (2005); Other (1987-2003)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM061
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00029w
- National record
- record SS 49 SW 30; monument 301327
- Wikidata
- Q31055121
Sources
References
- Dillon E. and Latham J. 1987. The North Gower Properties, The National Trust Archaeological Survey, London:National Trust.
- Fox, A. 1952. Hill-Slope Forts and Related Earthworks in South-West England and South Wales, Arch J, 109 (1952), 1-22.
- 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.
- Poucher, P. 2003. The National Trust Archaeological Survey, North Gower Properties: Whiteford Burrows, Llanrhidian Marsh, The Bulwark, Ryer's Down & Welsh Moor. London: National Trust.
- RCAHMW 1976. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Glamorgan, 1.2, Pre-Norman, Parts I-III, No. 689, 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, 36.