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Chapel Hill Camp, Merthyr Mawr House
Bridgend, Wales ยท Atlas WA1604
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1604 (1604)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Merthyr Mawr
- National Grid reference
- SS88877806
- Latitude
- 51.49048
- Longitude
- -3.60211
- Altitude
- 25 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1966); Other (2005); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1876-1878)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM248
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00275m
- National record
- record SS 87 NE 19; monument 94625
- Wikidata
- Q31118809
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, 630, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hill-forts in Wales, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 155.