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Crawley Rocks, Nicholston Burrows
Swansea, Wales · Atlas WA1605
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1605 (1605)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Swansea
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ilston
- National Grid reference
- SS51888796
- Latitude
- 51.57095
- Longitude
- -4.13873
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory, knoll or outcrop, and spur
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879); Other (1949); Other (1967); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00280w
- National record
- record SS 58 NW 16; monument 54485
- Wikidata
- Q31055211
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, 675, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Rutter, J.G. 1948. Prehistoric Gower: the early archaeology of West Glamorgan.
- Savory, H.N. 1954. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales and Monmouthshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 15, 229.