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Craig Tan-y-Lan
Vale of Glamorgan, Wales ยท Atlas WA1572
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1572 (1572)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangan
- National Grid reference
- SS95857954
- Latitude
- 51.50512
- Longitude
- -3.50205
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1966); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00189s
- National record
- record SS 97 NE 3; monument 307561
- Wikidata
- Q31119279
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, 633, Cardiff: HMSO.