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Roft Promontory Fort
Wrexham, Wales ยท Atlas WA1527
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1527 (1527)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Historic county
- Flintshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Gresford
- National Grid reference
- SJ35825585
- Latitude
- 53.09596
- Longitude
- -2.95993
- Altitude
- 65 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and ridge
- Aspect
- north
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1588); Other (1778); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1872-1873); Other (2007-2008)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 101299
- National record
- record SJ 35 NE
- Wikidata
- Q31119271
Sources
References
- Camden, W. 1806 edition. Britannia, Ed R. Gough, London, 228.
- Davies, Canon Ellis 1949. The prehistoric and Roman remains of Flintshire, Cardiff: William Lewis.
- Grant, I. and Jones, N.W. 2008. Defended enclosures in North-east Wales, 2007-08, Project Report, CPAT Report No 921, Welshpool: CPAT.
- Pennant, T. 1883 edition. Tours in Wales by Thomas Pennant Esq, Vol. I, Ed J. Rhys, Caernarfon: H. Humphreys, 390-91.