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Maendy Camp
Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales ยท Atlas WA1508
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1508 (1508)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Treorchy
- National Grid reference
- SS95739551
- Latitude
- 51.64864
- Longitude
- -3.50852
- Altitude
- 350 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.9 ha, 0.19 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east); Passage-way/Corridor (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1877); Excavation (1901); Other (1965); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM099
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00053m
- National record
- record SS 99 NE 7; monument 301331
- Wikidata
- Q31119057
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, 694, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Williams, H.W. 1902. The exploration of a prehistoric camp in Glamorganshire, Arch Camb, 6th Series, ii, , 252-60.