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Mynydd Ruthin
Vale of Glamorgan, Wales ยท Atlas WA1574
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1574 (1574)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangan
- National Grid reference
- SS97097959
- Latitude
- 51.50579
- Longitude
- -3.48420
- Altitude
- 70 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1877)
Identifiers
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00193s
- National record
- record SS 97 NE
- Wikidata
- Q31119293
Sources
References
- RCAHMW 1976. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Glamorgan, 1.2, Pre-Norman, Parts I-III, Cardiff: HMSO, 72b.