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Tor-Gro
Swansea, Wales ยท Atlas WA1515
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1515 (1515)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Swansea
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton
- National Grid reference
- SS46109355
- Latitude
- 51.61963
- Longitude
- -4.22452
- Altitude
- 76 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1971); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00090w
- National record
- record SS 49 SE; monument 400400
- Wikidata
- Q31055013
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, 622a, Cardiff: HMSO.