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Lewes Castle Promontory Fort, Rhossili
Swansea, Wales ยท Atlas WA1549
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1549 (1549)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Swansea
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rhossili
- National Grid reference
- SS41448734
- Latitude
- 51.56254
- Longitude
- -4.28897
- Altitude
- 48 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.38 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches and gang working
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1967); Other (1986); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM470
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00140w
- National record
- record SS 48 NW 21; monument 94717
- Wikidata
- Q31055263
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, 697, Cardiff: HMSO.