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Twmbarlwm
Torfaen, Wales ยท Atlas WA1545
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1545 (1545)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Torfaen
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Risca
- National Grid reference
- ST2421792611
- Latitude
- 51.62715
- Longitude
- -3.09624
- Altitude
- 419 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 4.14 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879-1883)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MM044
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00114g
- National record
- record ST 29 SW; monument 307848
- Wikidata
- Q31118619
Sources
References
- Whittle, E. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Glamorgan and Gwent, London: HMSO, 92-3.