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Llanddewi, Port Eynon
Swansea, Wales ยท Atlas WA1552
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1552 (1552)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Swansea
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Port Eynon
- National Grid reference
- SS45578876
- Latitude
- 51.57645
- Longitude
- -4.23006
- Altitude
- 49 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
- Water source
- pool
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1967); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM334
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 160
- National record
- record SS 48 NE; monument 305468
- Wikidata
- Q31055353
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, 643, Cardiff: HMSO.