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Gron Gaer
Swansea, Wales ยท Atlas WA1601
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1601 (1601)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Swansea
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanrhidian Higher
- National Grid reference
- SS55049476
- Latitude
- 51.63288
- Longitude
- -4.09598
- Altitude
- 61 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1964); Other (2005); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1937-1961)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM197
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00241w
- National record
- record SS 59 SE 1; monument 305610
- Wikidata
- Q31055548
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, 624, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hill-forts in Wales, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 159.