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y Bwlwarcau
Bridgend, Wales ยท Atlas WA1546
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1546 (1546)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangynwyd Middle
- National Grid reference
- SS83888855
- Latitude
- 51.58376
- Longitude
- -3.67742
- Altitude
- 275 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 6
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 5, SE 6, SW 5, NW 5
- Number of ditches
- 5
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 4.1 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.3 ha, 4.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1967); Other (2005); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1876-1877)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM059
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00116m
- National record
- record SS 88 NW; monument 301303
- Wikidata
- Q31118778
Sources
References
- Fox, A. 1952. Hill-Slope Forts and Related Earthworks in South-West England and South Wales, Arch J, 109 (1952), 1-22.
- Fox, C.F. and Fox, A. 1934. Forts and farms on Margam Mountain, Glamorgan, Antiquity, 8, 395-413.
- 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, 693, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Whittle, E. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Glamorgan and Gwent, London: HMSO, 34-5.