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Tredegar Camp
Newport, Wales ยท Atlas WA1507
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1507 (1507)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Newport
- Historic county
- Monmouthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Gaer
- National Grid reference
- ST28958684
- Latitude
- 51.57588
- Longitude
- -3.02671
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 8
- Enclosed area
- 4.65 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1882); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MM084
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00049g
- National record
- record ST 28 NE; monument 93429
- Wikidata
- Q31055740
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.
- Houlder, C. 1978. Wales: An archaeological guide the prehistoric , Roman and early medieval field monuments. London: Faber and Faber, 140.
- Savory, H.N. 1950. List of Hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales. II Monmouthshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud 13, 233.
- Whittle, E. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Glamorgan and Gwent, London: HMSO, 46-7.