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St Mary Hill Down
Vale of Glamorgan, Wales ยท Atlas WA1573
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1573 (1573)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangan
- National Grid reference
- SS96727905
- Latitude
- 51.50087
- Longitude
- -3.48937
- Altitude
- 95 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); In-turned (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1966); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00192s
- National record
- record SS 97 NE 6; monument 307565
- Wikidata
- Q31119286
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, 660, Cardiff: HMSO.