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Caer Dynnaf
Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Atlas WA1603
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1603 (1603)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cowbridge With Llanblethian
- National Grid reference
- SS98357427
- Latitude
- 51.45820
- Longitude
- -3.46452
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 3.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (West); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Other
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1578); Other (1966); Other (2005); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1877-1880); Excavation (1965-1967)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM100
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00263s
- National record
- record SS 97 SE 8; monument 93053
- Wikidata
- Q31119314
Sources
References
- Davies, J.L. 1967. Excavations at Caer Dynnaf, Llanblethian, Glam., 1965-1967, Morgannwg, 11, 77-78;
- 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, 670, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hill-forts in Wales, Bull Board Celtic Stud,13, 154.
- Whittle, E. 1992: A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Glamorgan and Gwent, 188, London: HMSO.