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Pen y Castell, Kenfig Hill
Bridgend, Wales ยท Atlas WA1553
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1553 (1553)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cynffig
- National Grid reference
- SS84228270
- Latitude
- 51.53125
- Longitude
- -3.67058
- Altitude
- 130 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- 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
- GM240
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00161m
- National record
- record SS 88 SW 30; monument 307355
- Wikidata
- Q31118790
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, 680, Cardiff: HMSO.