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Stembridge Camp

Swansea, Wales ยท Atlas WA1516

Location

Atlas number
WA1516 (1516)
Country
Wales
Current county or unitary authority
Swansea
Historic county
Glamorgan
Parish, community, or townland
Llanrhidian Lower
National Grid reference
SS46979145
Latitude
51.60100
Longitude
-4.21104
Altitude
31 m

Form and condition

Type
promontory fort
Condition
Extant and Likely destroyed
Morphology
partial univallate and partial bivallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
2
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
Number of ditches
1
Possible original entrances
1
Breaks through the ramparts
1
Enclosed area
0.2 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
stone wall, palisade, and berm
Also recorded
ditches
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (South east)

Landscape

Topographic position
inland promontory
Aspect
southwest
Land use
woodland and pasture

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
1st Identified Map Depiction (1879); Other (1986); Other (2005)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
GM125
HER
Glamorgan Gwent 00091w
National record
record SS 49 SE; monument 305533
Wikidata
Q31055136

Sources

References

  1. 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.
  2. RCAHMW 1976. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Glamorgan, 1.2, Pre-Norman, Parts I-III, 674, Cardiff: HMSO.
  3. Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 157.