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Cilifor Top
Swansea, Wales ยท Atlas WA1600
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1600 (1600)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Swansea
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanrhidian Lower
- National Grid reference
- SS50559240
- Latitude
- 51.61050
- Longitude
- -4.15980
- Altitude
- 110 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- Excavation (1910); Other (1966); Other (1986); Other (2005); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878-1879)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM124
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00233w
- National record
- record SS 59 SW 3; monument 301311
- Wikidata
- Q31055515
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.
- Morgan, L.Ll. 1910-11. No details, Trans Swansea Sc. Soc. 1910-11, 133.
- Morgan, L.Ll. 1912-13. No details, Trans Swansea Sc. Soc. 1912-13, 92.
- RCAHMW 1976. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Glamorgan, 1.2, Pre-Norman, Parts I-III, 665, Cardiff: HMSO
- Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hill-forts in Wales, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 154.
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