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Berry Wood
Swansea, Wales ยท Atlas WA1551
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1551 (1551)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Swansea
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Port Eynon
- National Grid reference
- SS47238847
- Latitude
- 51.57429
- Longitude
- -4.20599
- Altitude
- 46 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.1 ha, 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1967); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1979); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM178
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00159w
- National record
- record SS 48 NE 6; monument 93098
- Wikidata
- Q31055284
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, 686, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hill-forts in Wales, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 159.