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Mynydd Twmpathyddaer
Bridgend, Wales ยท Atlas WA1550
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1550 (1550)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Merthyr Mawr
- National Grid reference
- SS84058037
- Latitude
- 51.51028
- Longitude
- -3.67227
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- human bones
- Investigations
- Other (1961); Other (2005); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1876-1877)
Identifiers
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00153m
- National record
- record SS 88 SW
- Wikidata
- Q31118769
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, 632, Cardiff: HMSO.