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Wilcrick Hill Camp
Newport, Wales ยท Atlas WA1556
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1556 (1556)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Newport
- Historic county
- Monmouthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bishton
- National Grid reference
- ST41118780
- Latitude
- 51.58592
- Longitude
- -2.85141
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 4, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (North east); Passage-way/Corridor (North east); Hollow Way (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1882); Other (1991)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MM127
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00474g
- National record
- record ST 48 NW; monument 307946
- Wikidata
- Q31055792
Sources
References
- Savory, H.N. 1950. List of Hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales. II Monmouthshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 235.
- Howell, R. 2006: Searching for the Silures, Stroud: Tempus.