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Cae Summerhouse Camp
Bridgend, Wales · Atlas WA1602
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1602 (1602)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Merthyr Mawr
- National Grid reference
- SS86397798
- Latitude
- 51.48927
- Longitude
- -3.63779
- Altitude
- 75 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.2 ha, 0.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Other (1966); Other (2005); Excavation (1966-1973)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM102
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00246m
- National record
- record SS 87 NE; monument 301305
- Wikidata
- Q31118801
Sources
References
- Arnold, C.J. and Davies, J.L. 2000. Roman and Early Medieval Wales, Stroud: Sutton Publishing.
- Davies, J.L. 1966. Excavations at Cae Summerhouse, Tythegston, Glam., 1966, Morgannwg, 10, 54-59.
- Davies, J.L. 1967. Excavations at Cae Summerhouse, Tythegston, Glam: Second Interim Report, Morgannwg, 11, 75-77.
- Davies, J.L. 1973. Cae Summerhouse, Tythegston, Morgannwg, 17, 53-7.
- 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, 691, Cardiff: HMSO.