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Hen Gastell, Pen-Clawdd
Swansea, Wales ยท Atlas WA1599
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1599 (1599)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Swansea
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanrhidian Higher
- National Grid reference
- SS55439578
- Latitude
- 51.64214
- Longitude
- -4.09077
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope 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
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1964); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM268
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00227w
- National record
- record SS 59 NE; monument 300899
- Wikidata
- Q31055478
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, No. 648, Cardiff: HMSO.